Category: Geriatrics
Keywords: Geriatrics, high risk medications, pharmacy (PubMed Search)
Posted: 8/3/2024 by Robert Flint, MD
(Updated: 10/29/2024)
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This article serves as a great reminder that our older patients are on a significant amount of medications and many of these medications effect cognition. Cognitively impaired patients are at risk of medication errors. High risk medications in older patients include anticoagulants, opioids, anticholinergics, hypoglycemic/insulin and sedating medications. The authors found:
It is important to ask how the patient takes (or doesn’t take) their medications as well as other social determinate of health such as living alone.
Journal of the American Geriatrics SocietyEarly View
CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
High-risk medication use among older adults with cognitive impairment living alone in the United States
Matthew E. Growdon MD, MPH, Bocheng Jing MS, Kristine Yaffe MD, Leah S. Karliner MD, MAS, Katherine L. Possin PhD, Elena Portacolone MBA, MPH, PhD, W. John Boscardin PhD, Krista L. Harrison PhD, Michael A. Steinman MD
First published: 26 July 2024