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.”
What’s happening?
Interview #6: Hospital admission as an opportunity for deprescribing?
Recently the Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy (CJHP) published an article where the question “Should hospital admission be used as an opportunity for deprescribing in older adults?” was fiercely debated. Today we interview two hospital pharmacists, Pam Howell...
Interview #5: Deprescribing in telemedicine
Hello, deprescribers! Today we are excited to have another interview post with clinical pharmacist Pam Howell (Ontario, Canada), telling us about her (deprescribing) experiences working as part of the telemedicine initiative GeriMedRisk. Q: You are part...
Betty Havens Prize for Knowledge Translation in Aging
Dr. Barbara Farrell and the Bruyère Deprescribing Research Team received the 2019 Betty Havens Prize for Knowledge Translation Aging for outstanding achievements related to the spread and uptake of their deprescribing guidelines. Since 2013, the team has worked...
Keep up with the latest
This looks like a great opportunity! twitter.com/Sven_Streit/st…
Lots of great discussion about importance of documenting and communicating reason for medication when prescribing.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Article recently published in @AJofGP gives an overview of Australia’s enhanced RMMR program, which promotes a coll… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Agree - ensures everyone on the patient’s health care provider team (including the patient!) are ‘in the loop’ - mi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
POSSIBLE POSTPONEMENT OF #ICOD2021 💊 The first International Conference on Deprescribing might be postponed to 20… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Our Implementation Guide for the "Talking About Your Medications" Workshop Series has been downloaded >50 times! Th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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