The number of elderly is increasing in the developed part of the world. With
increasing age the prevalence of many diseases will increase. This promotes
high use of drugs. For all health care professionals, it is essential to be
aware of the possible risks and difficulties with drugs in the elderly. In this
book, the authors describe these difficulties from several aspects. Evidence
based medicine and elderly, physiological alterations with age that affects
pharmacology, specific conditions and drugs that are troublesome in the elderly
as well as organisational shortcomings are covered. The authors are pharmacist
and physicians and active as researchers, university teachers, and
practitioners, with special focus on drugs in the elderly. They describe
problems, but also possible solutions and aids in the pharmacotherapy of
elderly. Drug-related problems in the elderly is written as a teaching text for
students in different courses in the fields of pharmacology or geriatrics. It
is also intended to serve as a source of information and clinical support in
geriatric pharmacotherapy for students as well as all health care
professionals, e.g. physicians, nurses and pharmacists.
