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This document outlines evidence for proactive care and support for older adults with moderate to severe frailty.
Managing medicines in older people with multimorbidity is a fine balance, requiring input from the individual themselves, their support network and the wider multidisciplinary team. This issue focuses on how to get the best out of medicines, exploring deprescribing, structured medication reviews, and evidence-based interventions. This content is limited to members only.
Our team’s vision is to work in a proactive manner and identify patients living with moderate frailty who have unmet medical and social needs. Often, we find catching potential problems at a moderate frailty stage can significantly improve a patient’s quality of life and optimise their healthcare.
Older people are often taking several medications, but regular review of their benefits or risks is as of yet not part of standard care. This themed collection aims to improve patient outcomes and the sustainability of deprescribing approaches.
Our new research published in Age and Ageing has established that most people living with dementia and mild cognitive impairment and their caregivers are willing to have one of their medications deprescribed (78.5%).
New research published in Age and Ageing has shown that comprehensive medicines reviews are associated with a lower risk of death for residents of care homes.
This list of recommended resources and further information on medicines optimisation in older people has been curated by the BGS Medicine Optimisation Special Interest Group (SIG).
Older people are particularly at risk from complications as a result of COVID-19 and many are likely to already be taking medication for other conditions.