Reducing medications safely to meet life’s changes

Deprescribing research and guidelines support healthcare providers and patients in reducing or stopping medications that may be harmful or no longer needed.

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Information and resources created by deprescribing.org to help you learn how to discuss your medications with your healthcare providers.

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Deprescribing guidelines and algorithms designed with ease-of-use in mind for busy healthcare providers.

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Deprescribing research is underway to develop new guidelines and examine uptake and effect on health outcomes.

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“As the population ages, older Canadians are living with multiple chronic conditions. In 2021, one in four seniors were prescribed 10 or more unique drug classes.”

Drug use among seniors in Canada | CIHI

“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.”

Philippe Pinel 1745-1826

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