Overview
- Serves as a repository of knowledge and scientific evidence concerning medications and their effects on falls risk
- Informs readers of the complexity of the issue of medication related falls in older adults
- Provide strategies for its management
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Drugs and Falls: Why Are Older People at Risk?
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Medications Associated with Falls in the Elderly
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Management of Medication-Related Falls
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About this book
Comprising a single repository of knowledge and scientific evidence in the field, this book provides strategies to mitigate fall risk by providing information on the complex interactions between aging processes, co-morbid conditions and prescribed medications in older patients.
Geriatric health is becoming a more prominent issue as the population ages, and balancing the beneficial effects of medication against the potential and real side-effects in these patients involves a deliberate and thoughtful task: physiologic aging, the accumulation of co-morbidities, and the use of drugs to manage various conditions and symptoms generates a unique set of problems for each patient.
Falls are a dreaded event in older people. The event can affect a person in a physical, and psychological manner, resulting in soft tissue and bony injury, fear of falling, and depression. The identification of and reduction in fall risks in older people is a worldwide concern, and reducing the incidence of falls is a ubiquitous quality measure of health care delivery. Heterogeneity amongst older people precludes a single solution. However, physicians and others involved in the care of geriatric patients will benefit from the presented insights into how medication use can be modified to limit its impact as a contributing factor.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Louise Mallet is a professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada and a clinical pharmacist on the geriatric consult team in the emergency room at McGill University Health Centre, Glen site. Her primary research interest is inappropriate medication usage in elderly patients. She has published numerous papers, presented at conferences, and acted as co-editor of two French-language textbooks on medications in the elderly. She is a member of the editorial review board for The Consultant Pharmacist journal and is associate editor for the French journal Pharmactuel. Dr. Mallet is a recipient of the Roger LeBlanc award, the Excellence in Geriatric Pharmacy Practice award from the American Society of Consultant pharmacists, and the prestigious award Prix Louis Hébert from the Quebec pharmaceutical Society. She has also been honoured by the Association des pharmaciens en établissements du santé du Québec for her work as a hospital pharmacist. She is a Fellow of the European Society of Clinical Pharmacy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Medication-Related Falls in Older People
Book Subtitle: Causative Factors and Management Strategies
Editors: Allen R. Huang, Louise Mallet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32304-6
Publisher: Adis Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32302-2Published: 02 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81249-6Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32304-6Published: 25 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 261
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geriatrics/Gerontology, Pharmacology/Toxicology, General Practice / Family Medicine