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Top Four Drug Types That Sent Seniors to the Hospital

With adverse drug events landing nearly 100,000 seniors in the hospital each year, are all medications equal in terms of this potential risk?

Medication Plan Should Balance Independence and Safety (Canada)

It can be easy to want to micromanage a loved one's medication regimen. But consider how the senior may feel if he considers himself perfectly capable of managing things on his own.

How to Keep Medication Side Effects from Jeopardizing a Senior's Independence

Side effects from a medication can isolate older adults, potentially robbing them of their independence.

How Family Caregivers Can Help (Canada)

As a family caregiver, you can help your loved one avoid the potential pitfalls of adverse medication reactions.

Transition Danger: When Seniors Are at Risk of Medication Problems

It's ironic: Seniors can be the most vulnerable to medication errors during the times they are being treated for illnesses or surgeries, and recovering from them.

Transition Danger: When Seniors Are at Risk of Medication Problems (Canada)

It's ironic: Seniors can be the most vulnerable to medication errors when they are unwell such as during the times they are being treated for illnesses or surgeries, and recovering from them.

Medication Plan Should Balance Independence and Safety

It can be easy to want to micromanage a loved one's medication regimen. But consider how the senior may feel if he considers himself perfectly capable of managing things on his own.

Medication Tracker for Seniors

When you keep track of your loved one's medicines, it helps prevent accidents. Show this list to doctors and dentists so they can watch out for interactions and side effects.

How Family Caregivers Can Help

As a family caregiver, you can help your loved one avoid the potential pitfalls of adverse medication reactions.

Executive Summaries

Research conducted by Home Instead, Inc., franchisor of the Home Instead® network, indicates that as the number of prescription medications a senior age 70+ takes increases, so do that senior’s potential medication management challenges and potential health risks.

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• Plenty of programs stress the importance of talking to teenagers about the dangers of drug misuse. But who’s talking to seniors?

  It’s the ultimate irony: these remedies save lives, but also have the potential to sicken or even kill those seniors who may most need the treatment. Oftentimes, medication management is a difficult subject to broach because it is so personal and something seniors may have taken care of on their own for a very long time.

  There are plenty of questions to ask a senior to help determine whether he or she could be at risk, from “Do you know why you are taking this medication and how it’s supposed to help you?” to “How do you manage to keep track of all those pills?”

  Remember, talking today could help ensure that an older adult stays independent longer. The Let’s Talk about Rx℠ program provides a number of resources that could open the door to meaningful conversations about medications.

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