Hypertension in older adults is related to adverse cardiovascular outcomes, such as heart
failure, stroke, myocardial infarction, and death. The global burden of hypertension is …

Purpose: screening tool of older people's prescriptions (STOPP) and screening tool to alert
to right treatment (START) criteria were first published in 2008. Due to an expanding …

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Beers Criteria®(AGS Beers Criteria®) for Potentially
Inappropriate Medication (PIM) Use in Older Adults are widely used by clinicians, educators …

Background: Substitutive hospital-level care in a patient's home may reduce cost, health
care use, and readmissions while improving patient experience, although evidence from …

Importance Anticholinergic medicines have short-term cognitive adverse effects, but it is
uncertain whether long-term use of these drugs is associated with an increased risk of …

Background The benefits and risks of augmenting or switching antidepressants in older
adults with treatment-resistant depression have not been extensively studied. Methods We …

The 2015 American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Beers Criteria are presented. Like the 2012
AGS Beers Criteria, they include lists of potentially inappropriate medications to be avoided …

Importance Prescription and over-the-counter medicines and dietary supplements are
commonly used, alone and together, among older adults. However, the effect of recent …

Introduction Depression rates in older people worldwide vary from 10% to 15% of
community-dwelling older persons. There are two others problems related to depression in …

Purpose To update the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG) 2005
recommendations on geriatric assessment (GA) in older patients with cancer. Methods SIOG …