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Medication management in older people – a hidden burden
Author(s) -
Maidment Ian,
Huckerby Clair,
Shukla David
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1881
Subject(s) - medicine , older people , key (lock) , medication therapy management , gerontology , nursing , computer security , computer science , pharmacist , pharmacy
The MEMORABLE study was designed to identify the real‐world challenges associated with medication management in older people taking many different medicines. This article summarises the key findings of the study and discusses potential ways in which medication burden could be reduced.