Abstract
Senior patients are at hight risk of polymorbidity which may correspond with hight risk of polypharmacy. Benefit of pharmacotherapy on one hand and risk of pharmacotherapy on the other hand are two different scales of one balance we have to measure on.The paper shows basic principles of safe and efficient pharmacotherapy in the elderly - including inappropriate psychotropic drugs and drug-drug interactions which should be avoided.
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Luzny, J. (2013). Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication use among elders with dementia. In Polypharmacy in Psychiatry Practice Volume II: Use of Polypharmacy in the “real world” (pp. 263–274). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5799-8_13
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