Taking five or more drugs daily, called polypharmacy, is a significant concern for folks as they age, researchers noted. “The cut-off of point of five or more medications daily has been associated ...

THURSDAY, Nov. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults with both Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) and polypharmacy (PPY) can experience more symptoms and have negative health outcomes ...

Its platform identifies patients who are at high risk of near-term hospitalization related to polypharmacy issues, recommends immediate interventions, such as changes to medication regimens ...

Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, USA; and Laboratory of Applied Statistics in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — While polypharmacy is inevitable for patients with multiple chronic diseases, not all medications improve patient-oriented outcomes, members of the Patients ...

Methods This is a retrospective cohort study on medication adherence in community-dwelling older people (65–94 years old) on chronic polypharmacy and recorded from 2013 to 2015 in the administrative ...