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European Geriatric Medicine - Special issue: MEDICATIONS in OLDER PEOPLE is online!

Issue Editors: Antonio Cherubini, Marie Laure Laroche, Mirko Petrovic

FREE READING till 1st JULY 2021

EDITORIAL: Mastering the complexity: drug therapy optimization in geriatric patients, (this opens in a new tab) A. Cherubini, M. L. Laroche & M. Petrovic 

Incorporating pharmacokinetic data into personalised prescribing for older people: challenges and opportunities (this opens in a new tab)
Arduino A. Mangoni & Elzbieta A. Jarmuzewska 

Polypharmacy in older adults: a narrative review of definitions, epidemiology and consequences, (this opens in a new tab) Farhad Pazan & Martin Wehling (Open Access) (this opens in a new tab)

Underprescription of medications in older adults: causes, consequences and solutions—a narrative review (this opens in a new tab), F. Lombardi, L. Paoletti, B. Carrieri, G. Dell’Aquila, M. Fedecostante, M. Di Muzio, A. Corsonello, F. Lattanzio & A. Cherubini 

Adverse drug reactions in older adults: a narrative review of the literature, (this opens in a new tab) Maria Beatrice Zazzara, Katie Palmer, Davide Liborio Vetrano, Angelo Carfì & Onder Graziano (Open Access) (this opens in a new tab)

Identifying key prescribing cascades in older people (iKASCADE): a transnational initiative on drug safety through a sex and gender lens—rationale and design (this opens in a new tab), Shelley A. Sternberg, Mirko Petrovic, Graziano Onder, Antonio Cherubini, Denis O’Mahony, Jerry H. Gurwitz, Francesco Pegreffi, Robin Mason, Jennifer Akerman, Lisa McCarthy, Andrea Lawson, Joyce Li, Wei Wu & Paula A. Rochon 

Mapping of drug-related problems among older adults conciliating medical and pharmaceutical approaches (this opens in a new tab), Marie-Laure Laroche, Thi Hong Van Ngo, Caroline Sirois, Amélie Daveluy, Michel Guillaumin, Marie-Blanche Valnet-Rabier, Muriel Grau, Barbara Roux & Louis Merle 

Medication review and reconciliation in older adults, (this opens in a new tab) Jean-Baptiste Beuscart, Sylvia Pelayo, Laurine Robert, Stefanie Thevelin, Sophie Marien & Olivia Dalleur 

Effects of hospital pharmacist interventions on health outcomes in older polymedicated inpatients: a scoping review (this opens in a new tab)
E. Delgado-Silveira, M. Vélez-Díaz-Pallarés, M. Muñoz-García, A. Correa-Pérez, A. M. Álvarez-Díaz & A. J. Cruz-Jentoft 

Pharmacological treatment in the dying geriatric patient: describing use and dosage of opioids in the acute geriatric wards and palliative care units of three hospitals (this opens in a new tab), Wim H. Janssens, Nele J. Van Den Noortgate & Ruth D. Piers 

Interventions to optimize medication use in nursing homes: a narrative review (this opens in a new tab), Anne Spinewine, Perrine Evrard & Carmel Hughes (Open Access) (this opens in a new tab)

Potentially inappropriate medication among people with dementia: towards individualized decision-making (this opens in a new tab), Anna Renom-Guiteras

Guidance for appropriate use of psychotropic drugs in older people, (this opens in a new tab) Andreas Capiau, Katrien Foubert, Annemie Somers & Mirko Petrovic 

Depression, antidepressants and fall risk: therapeutic dilemmas—a clinical review (this opens in a new tab), E. P. van Poelgeest, A. C. Pronk, D. Rhebergen & N. van der Velde (Open Access) (this opens in a new tab)


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