Huang, Allen R.
Medication-Related Falls in Older People
Part I. Background
1. Introduction
Allen R. Huang, Louise Mallet
2. The Aging Population and Falls: Consequences and Costs
Paula M. Horsley, Allen R. Huang
3. Falls Count and Counting Falls: Making Sense of Data About Falls
Nancy E. Mayo, Sabrina M. Figueiredo
Part II. Drugs and Falls: Why Are Older People at Risk?
4. Polypharmacy
Susan K. Bowles
5. Pharmacology of Drugs in Aging
Louise Mallet
6. Age-Related Physical and Physiologic Changes and Comorbidities in Older People: Association with Falls
Gustavo Duque
7. Adverse Events and Falls
Shirley C. C. Huang, Alan J. Forster
8. Risk Factors for Falls in the Elderly
E. Kwan, S. Straus, J. Holroyd-Leduc
Part III. Medications Associated with Falls in the Elderly
9. Psychotropic Drugs
Andrea Iaboni, Benoit H. Mulsant
10. Benzodiazepines
Annemie Somers, Mirko Petrovic
11. Drugs for Degenerative Neurologic Conditions: Antiparkinson Medications, Cholinesterase Inhibitors, and Memantine
Geneviève Lemay
12. Antihypertensives and Cardiovascular Medications
Rebecca L. Salbu, Rosanne M. Leipzig, Fred C. Ko
13. Glucose Control Medications
Louise Mallet
Part IV. Management of Medication-Related Falls
14. Inappropriate Medications and Risk of Falls in Older Adults
Jennifer Greene Naples, Joseph T. Hanlon, Christine M. Ruby, Susan L. Greenspan
15. Identifying Explicit Criteria for the Prevention of Falls
Denis Curtin, Stephen Byrne, Denis O’Mahony
16. Approach to Medication Reviews in Older Adults
Derek Dyks
17. Withdrawal of Fall Risk-Increasing Drugs
Nathalie Velde, Tischa J. M. Cammen
18. Benzodiazepine Withdrawal in the Elderly: A Practical Approach
Louise Mallet
19. Role of Information and Communication Technologies
Allen R. Huang
20. A Novel Personalized Fall Risk Calculator: A Prototype for Improving the Safety of Prescribing Through Computerized Decision Support
Robyn Tamblyn
21. Future Directions
Allen R. Huang
Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Pharmacology/Toxicology, General Practice / Family Medicine
- Editor
- Huang, Allen R.
- Mallet, Louise
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 8 pages
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319323046
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-32302-2