For older people and frail people, the long-term benefit of medicines reduces and the potential for harm from adverse effects increases. When the benefit–risk balance changes in this way, medicine review and optimisation are important to simplify the therapeutic regimen, reduce inappropriate medicines and minimise risks. In this article, pharmacist prescriber Linda Bryant uses two case studies to illustrate important considerations during medicine reviews
Pain affects people with dementia as much as it does anyone else
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Pain affects people with dementia as much as it does anyone else
Wednesday 9 May 2018, 10:07 AM

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ELDER HEALTH
People with dementia are often less able to identify, define and report the pain they feel, so it takes extra attention to make sure this aspect of care is not missed
Key points
The sources of pain are the same as with all older people, except the person with dementia has trouble identifying, defining and repo
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