Medications Review:
Is it time for a medication review? Many people take unnecessary meds
Is it time for a medication review? Many people take unnecessary meds
Medication review and deprescribing appear to be reasonable and safe ways to address polypharmacy in seniors. Review results suggest stopping one or more unnecessary medications can lead to health benefits such as fewer falls and may even increase your chance of living a longer life.
Encouragingly, stopping unnecessary medications did not increase risk of drug withdrawal or affect quality of life.
Reviewing medications – and deprescribing when warranted – has strong and growing support among doctors, geriatricians, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals concerned with the over prescribing and overuse of drugs. In Canada, the goals of the Canadian Deprescribing Network are to reduce prescriptions of inappropriate medications by 50% by 2020 and to promote safer drug and non-drug therapies.
Wonder if you’d be better off with fewer pills? We are here to help ask us for a medication review, it's FREE. Together, you can work on a plan to meet your health and wellness goals and safely reduce drugs you no longer need.
Medications Review:
Is it time for a medication review? Many people take unnecessary meds
Is it time for a medication review? Many people take unnecessary meds
Medication review and deprescribing appear to be reasonable and safe ways to address polypharmacy in seniors. Review results suggest stopping one or more unnecessary medications can lead to health benefits such as fewer falls and may even increase your chance of living a longer life.
Encouragingly, stopping unnecessary medications did not increase risk of drug withdrawal or affect quality of life.
Reviewing medications – and deprescribing when warranted – has strong and growing support among doctors, geriatricians, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals concerned with the over prescribing and overuse of drugs. In Canada, the goals of the Canadian Deprescribing Network are to reduce prescriptions of inappropriate medications by 50% by 2020 and to promote safer drug and non-drug therapies.
Wonder if you’d be better off with fewer pills? We are here to help ask us for a medication review, it's FREE. Together, you can work on a plan to meet your health and wellness goals and safely reduce drugs you no longer need.