Canada urgently needs a national strategy to ensure seniors are prescribed appropriate medications because the cost of giving them the wrong drugs has reached nearly $2 billion a year, a new study says.
Prof. Steve Morgan of the University of British Columbia said physiological changes associated with aging alter the effects of many medications, meaning older adults shouldn’t be taking them.
The study is published in CMAJ Open, an open-access journal of the Canadian Medical Association, and includes prescription data from six provinces.
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