Assessment
- BEERS Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults
- BEERS – Pocket Card
- BEERS – Clinical Practice Guidelines recommendations
- BEERS – Pocket Card
- Drugs that Contribute to Risk of Falls – Merck Manual for Professionals (Table 2)
- 2012 Anticholinergic Burden Scale
- Safer Healthcare Now! Reducing Falls and Injuries from Falls. Getting Started Kit (pages 50-52)
- Lemay G, Dalziel B. Better Prescribing in the Elderly. Canadian Geriatric Society Journal of CME 2012;2(3):20-26.
Interventions
- Withdraw or minimize medications contributing to problem
- Interventions to Reduce Medication-Related Falls
- Consider pharmacist assessment
– Consider requesting a focused medication review related to falls
– MedsCheck - Optimize pain management
– AGS Management of Persistent Pain in Older Adults Clinical Practice Guidelines