Titlebook: Optimizing Pharmacotherapy in Older Patients; An Interdisciplinary Antonio Cherubini,Arduino A. Mangoni,Mirko Petrovi Book 2023 Springer Na

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Optimizing Pharmacotherapy in Older Adults: Urinary Incontinenceview of medications. Pharmacotherapy should ideally be considered following a trial of conservative management, and both these approaches are not mutually exclusive. Medications available mainly target urge incontinence/overactive bladder and to a lesser extent stress and mixed incontinence. Treatme

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Constipationges in the elderly from 24 to 50%. Laxatives are the backbone for the management in patients non responder to lifestyle and dietary modification. Many studies comparing laxative effects in older people are limited and of poor quality. However, laxatives have generally been shown efficacy and safety.

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The Impact of Ageing on Pharmacokineticskinetic changes associated with ageing, and the implementation of robust strategies to ensure the quality use of medicines by healthcare professionals, is likely to augment therapeutic efficacy and minimise toxicity in the older patient population.

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Inappropriate Prescription of Mediciness, such that patients experiencing polypharmacy and particularly hyperpolypharmacy (i.e. ≥10 daily long-term medications) should be carefully assessed for both PIMs and PPOs in the interests of avoiding iatrogenic injury and protecting patient safety. Various sets of validated explicit IP criteria a

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Adverse Drug Reactions in Older People: A Twenty-First Century View transition, using validated assessment tools for detection of inappropriate medications can help to minimise the prevalence of ADRs. All clinical staff dealing with older patients should be aware that ADRs often present with non-specific symptoms such as confusion, poor appetite, lethargy, altered

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Adherence: How to Measure and Improve Itider the severity of the consequences of non-adherence. There are many ways to measure medication adherence, and they usually fall into direct (e.g. blood samples) or indirect (e.g. pill count) methods, and subjective (e.g. questionnaires) and objective measures. It is likely that a multi-modal appr