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 #7: To deprescribe or not to deprescribe: Considerations in older adults with polypharmacy during the COVID-19 pandemic
Welcome to our 7th guest blog post. Today, we have Dr. Nagham J. Ailabouni from the University of South Australia writing about deprescribing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Take it away! COVID-19 and older adults The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected...
Guest Blog Post #6: DeprescrIPP: Deprescribing proton pump inhibitors in primary care
Hello deprescribing world! Today we have another guest blog post by Dr. Jean-Pascal Fournier and Dr. Jerome Nguyen from Nantes University in France. Today, they will tell us about a deprescribing study they are currently working on. DeprescrIPP The department of...
Guest Blog Post #5: Deprescribing, Polypharmacy and Aging from an Anthropological Perspective
Hi everyone, this week we will have another guest blog post. Today we have Dr. Sofie Rosenlund Lau (MScPharm, PhD in medical anthropology) discussing how anthropology and ethnography can be used in deprescribing research and to facilitate deprescribing in clinical...
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