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Medication review for the older person

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2007

Maggi Banning
Maggi Banning*
Affiliation:
Brunel University, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Uxbridge, UK
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Address for correspondence: M Banning, Brunel University, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Mary Seacole Building, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK.
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People of 65 years and older accounted for 21% of the population of England and Wales in 2001, and their proportion is increasing. It is forecast that the number of people over the age 75 years will double within the next 50 years, and that of those over the age of 90 will increase fivefold. The older patient with declining health poses significant challenges for health care professionals, in particular those of managing chronic morbidity and the effects of aging. Many older people require pharmacological treatment for multiple, co-existing pathologies. Those of 65 years and over receive 56% of all prescriptions in England, of which 78% are repeat prescriptions, and people in residential care, on average, receive five different medicines concurrently. The impact of repeat prescriptions means that, due to inadequate monitoring, many older people continue to administer medicines they no longer require, and thereby risk receiving an inappropriate drug, dose or duration of treatment. In addition to this, there is the propensity for older people to mismanage medicines, increasing their risk of unplanned drug-related admission to hospital and drug-related morbidity.

Type
Clinical geriatrics
Information
Reviews in Clinical Gerontology , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 25 - 32
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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