Consider deprescribing medications in frail, older people when risks exceed benefits

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Consider deprescribing medications in frail, older people when risks exceed benefits

9 October 2019

Vanessa Weenink

Wednesday 9 October 2019, 01:30 AM

Linda Bryant is a clinical adviser and prescribing pharmacist at Newtown Union Health Service and Porirua Union & Community Health Service, Wellington

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This article marks the start of a new column provided by the Clinical Advisory Pharmacists Association* based on scenarios that have been presented to prescribing pharmacists working in primary care. Here, the medication review of a frail, older man after a case of pneumonia is discussed

Key points, Life expectancy for frail people is generally less than two years. For older people and frail people, medicines may have limited long-term benefit i

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