Reducing medications safely to meet life’s changes
What medications were good then might not be the best choice now. Deprescribing is the planned process of reducing or stopping medications that may no longer be of benefit or may be causing harm. The goal is to reduce medication burden or harm while improving quality of life.
Be part of the change for a better quality of life
Patients
Learn about deprescribing and check out resources to help you discuss deprescribing with your health care provider.
Health Care Providers
Get comfortable deprescribing with tools and resources, case reports and testimonials, and relevant publications.
Researchers
Find out about ongoing research at Bruyère Research Institute and the University of Montreal and join the conversation to share your own research.
As the population ages, older Canadians are living with multiple chronic conditions. In 2016, 35% of community-dwelling seniors had chronic use of 5 or more different drug classes.
Inappropriate prescriptions are known to pose health risks for older adults, leading to unnecessary hospitalisations and undue cost.
“It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly; but it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether omit them.”
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A deprescribing blog?
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Dr. Barbara Farrell, has been awarded the 2019 CIHR Betty Havens Prize for Knowledge Translation in Aging
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A 78-year-old #Alzheimer patient is being treated with rivastigmine since the time of diagnosis & started memantine… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Big thank you to @CLRI_LTC for supporting the Bruyere-led #Deprescribing Team's goal of creating an environment in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Dr Barb Farrell facilitating a team discussion with #Ontario stakeholders on #deprescribing in #LTC #DeRxLTC2019… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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