title: Pharmacotherapy problems in the elderly.
abstract: As the elderly population increases, pharmacists will routinely confront aging-related problems in drug therapy. Drug therapy plans must take into account that diseases will present and progress differently in the elderly. Individual variations characterize the aging process, and it is physiologic-versus chronologic-aging that underlies age-related differences in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. More than one in six elderly Americans are taking prescription drugs whose adverse effects can have serious consequences in this age group.
authors.affiliation: University of Wyoming, USA.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Steiner
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000592:standards; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000639:trends; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004363:Drug Utilization; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D006801:Humans; D010599:Pharmacokinetics; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D016312:Treatment Refusal