Dermatology Nursing. 2004;16(6):547-548. The adapted Beers' Criteria (HCFA Guidelines for Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly) identifies medications noted by an expert panel to have ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A total of 69.5% of patients with insomnia aged 65 years and older were misusing medication. Extended duration ...

Globally, it is possible that less than half of all patients are treated in compliance with guidelines and more than half of all patients fail to take their medicines as prescribed or dispensed. Such ...

Despite longstanding guidelines, many dementia patients are still prescribed brain-altering medications that can raise the ...

Even after years of warnings, millions of older Americans with dementia are still being prescribed risky brain-altering drugs—often with no clear medical justification. Even after years of clinical ...

An estimated quarter of traditional Medicare beneficiaries with dementia are prescribed risky, brain-altering drugs despite years of clinical guidelines cautioning against the practice, a new study ...

Immigrants and people who live alone are also more vulnerable. "We used Pierre Bourdieu's theory to understand how different resources affect treatment quality. For example, we showed that a weak ...

Today the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) announced the release of the Alternative Treatments to Selected Medications in the 2023 American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria ® (DOI: 10.1111/jgs.19500 ...

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have a rare point of agreement in their otherwise bitter and divisive contest: It's up to the government to cut high U.S. drug prices.