Polypharmacy which in simple term implies the concurrent use of multiple medications by a patient, is a growing concern, ...

Taking five or more drugs daily, called polypharmacy, is a significant concern for folks as they age, researchers noted. "The ...

The field of geriatric pharmacotherapy is increasingly focused on the challenges of appropriate prescribing and deprescribing and represcribing in older patients. As individuals age, they often ...

Managing diabetes in older adults in India presents unique challenges due to age-related bodily changes and the prevalence of ...

Polypharmacy, commonly defined as taking five ... growing in the U.S., with an estimated 80 million individuals over the age of 65 by 2040," said Coates. "This means that the number of older ...

The results showed a high prevalence (82–90%) of polypharmacy with medication classes including anti-inflammatory (65–77%), vitamins and minerals (64–72%), anti-cholesterol (33–41%), antihypertensive ...

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 ...