Medication in Elderly
Haloperidol causes this adverse effect in the elderly.
What is Tardive dyskinesia?
The personal freedom to direct one's own life as long as it does not impinge on the rights of others is?
What is autonomy?
How a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized and excreted.
What is pharmacokinetics?
This is defined as any action or procedure that prevents a person's free body movement to a position of choice and/or normal access to their body by the use of any method, attached or adjacent to a person's body that her or she cannot control or remove easily.
What is a physical restraint?
A nurse compiles a list of all over the counter, herbal and prescription medications on her first visit to the patient's home.
What is medication reconciliation
A legal term that refers to the ability to fulfill one;s role and handle one's affairs in a responsible manner is...
What is competency?
Anticoagulants have a similar bioactivity to these herbs.
What is garlic and ginger?
An order by a physician to limit life saving attempts for a patient.
What is a DNR?
Mixing medications and Alcohol can result in this condition.
What is Central Nervous system depression?
A clinical term that is a measure of a person's ability to make an informed and logical decision about a particular aspect of his or her health care.
What is decision-making capacity?
One common age related change that decreases clearance of medication.
What is decreased clearance caused by renal changes?
Sometimes abbreviated as ANH.
What is Artificial nutrition and hydration?
This common over the counter remedy for diarrhea can cause anticholinergic effects.
What is Loperamide?
An advance directive that takes effect whenever someone cannot, for any reason, provide informed consent for health care treatment decisions.
What is a durable power of attorney?
These criteria were developed to alert health care prescribers to medications that should generally be avoided in ambulatory older adults.
What is Beer's criteria?
These terms refer to medication taking patterns that differ from the prescribed pattern, including missed doses, failure to fill prescriptions, or medications taken too frequently or at inappropriate times.
What is medication non adherence?
According to Beer's criteria which drug class is inappropriate for use in the old-old adult population.
What are Anticholinergic drugs?
A type of advance directive whose purpose is to guide decisions about care that is provided or withheld under certain circumstances, usually at the end of life or when the person is considered terminally ill.
What is a Living Will?
These interactions are very common in patient's with polypharmacy.
What is medication to medication interactions?
The use of more medications than are clinically indicated.
What is polypharmacy?