Abstract
Elderly patients are characterized by the presence of several diseases at once (polymorbidity). This is due to the simultaneous appointment of several drugs (polypharmacy) to such patients. But at the same time, polypharmacy reduces the effectiveness of treatment and increases the risk of adverse reactions. Therefore, it is extremely important to select drugs individually in compliance with the indications and contraindications for their appointment, to take into account the interaction of drugs and the possibility of the drug's influence on concomitant pathology, to use only proven effectiveness and safety drugs, to guide by Beer's criteria, to unexceed the recommended doses, to include in complex therapy metabolic drugs to optimize elderly patients drug therapy.
Keywords: elderly patients; geriatrics; pharmacotherapy; polymorbidity; polypharmacy; Beers criteria
Publisher
State Institution - D. F. Chebotarev Institute of Gerontology NAMS of Ukraine
Subject
Pharmacology (medical),Complementary and alternative medicine,Pharmaceutical Science
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