书目名称 | Medication-Related Falls in Older People | 副标题 | Causative Factors an | 编辑 | Allen R. Huang,Louise Mallet | 视频video | | 概述 | Serves as a repository of knowledge and scientific evidence concerning medications and their effects on falls risk.Informs readers of the complexity of the issue of medication related falls in older a | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Comprising a single repository of knowledge and scientific evidence in the field, this book provides strategies to mitigate fall risk by providing information on the complex interactions between aging processes, co-morbid conditions and prescribed medications in older patients...Geriatric health is becoming a more prominent issue as the population ages, and balancing the beneficial effects of medication against the potential and real side-effects in these patients involves a deliberate and thoughtful task: physiologic aging, the accumulation of co-morbidities, and the use of drugs to manage various conditions and symptoms generates a unique set of problems for each patient. ..Falls are a dreaded event in older people. The event can affect a person in a physical, and psychological manner, resulting in soft tissue and bony injury, fear of falling, and depression. The identification of and reduction in fall risks in older people is a worldwide concern, and reducing the incidence of falls is a ubiquitous quality measure of health care delivery. Heterogeneity amongst older people precludes a single solution. However, physicians and others involved in the care of geriatric patients will | 出版日期 | Book 2016 | 关键词 | Adverse Events; Aging; Benzodiazepines; Drug withdrawal; Fall Risk; Inappropriate Medications; Information | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32304-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-81249-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-32304-6 | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 |
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