Recently, a story was published on MSNBC about the effects of overmedication in older adults. Polypharmacy, as it is called, is the use of multiple medications. Sometimes it’s a difficult condition to assess because doctors may attribute any abnormal or change in behavior as a normal effect of the illness the medications are used for. … [Continue Reading]
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