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Drug Therapy in the Elderly: The Clinical Pharmacology of Aging
Author(s) -
Lee Peter V.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1978.tb04691.x
Subject(s) - drug , medicine , incidence (geometry) , drug reaction , intensive care medicine , pharmacotherapy , adverse effect , pharmacology , elderly people , gerontology , optics , physics
It is becoming increasingly apparent that age and the changes of aging are factors to be taken into account in drug therapy and in the study of drug actions. Older people have more adverse reactions to drugs than do younger people. Several studies in hospitalized patients have confirmed the fact that the incidence of untoward reactions to drugs increases with advancing age.