“Older adults utilize more than 33% of all prescribed medications, supplements, and over-the-counter preparations sold. Out-of-pocket drug–related expenditures are greater than $10 billion per year and more than 90% of all older adults take one or more medications per day” (Heuberger, 2012, p. 325). As people age, they become more susceptible to chronic illnesses that lead them to take several medications. There is an increased risk of drug interactions, side effects, and adverse reactions with the increase use of multiple medications.
There are age related physiological changes that alter the ways in which drugs are handled by the body. Due to physiological changes in the elderly the absorption, transport, disposition, metabolism, and
There are age related physiological changes that alter the ways in which drugs are handled by the body. Due to physiological changes in the elderly the absorption, transport, disposition, metabolism, and