Extent and quality of drug use in community-dwelling people aged ≥75 years: A Swedish nationwide register-based study.
CONCLUSIONS: The substantial use of some drugs as early as 75 years of age confirms the value of including drug use as a topic in preventive home visits to 75-year-olds. The finding that polypharmacy and many measures of inappropriate drug use increased with age in community-dwelling older people also underscores the importance of district nurses' role in continuing to promote safe medication management at higher ages.
PMID: 29199915 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lagerin A, Törnkvist L, Nilsson G, Johnell K, Fastbom J Tags: Scand J Public Health Source Type: research
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