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.
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Patients
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Health Care Providers
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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.”
What’s happening?
Guest Blog Post #12: Protecting the human right to try: Evidence-based deprescription of antipsychotic medication
Hello, deprescribing world. Today we have Dr. Helene Speyer, MD, Ph.D. at Mental Health Center Copenhagen (Denmark), telling us about an ongoing project on deprescribing of antipsychotics. Take it away, Helene! “When can I get off this medication?” Most people taking...
Guest Blog Post #11: Deprescribing experiences from a primary care pharmacist
Welcome to another guest blog post. Today we have Cynthia Leung, pharmacist at the Queen’s Family Health Team (in Kingston, Canada) and the person behind the blog DRUGOPINIONS, sharing her experiences with deprescribing as practicing pharmacist in primary care,...
Nursing Home Residents as a Priority Population for Deprescribing
Welcome to our 10th guest blog post. Today Dr. Joshua Niznik of the University of North Carolina will tell us about his work on overtreatment and deprescribing in nursing home residents in the US. Take it away! Nursing Home Residents are a Priority Population for...
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