An article in the January issue of Consumer Reports on Health reviews how many of us with joint pain from osteoarthritis can feel and function better by incorporating a few proven [...]
Here’s a link to the American Geriatrics Society Geriatric Syndrome Guide for lay persons. I encourage older adults and their caregivers to review this and use it as a resour[...]
…because what the doctor is about to treat could be a side-effect from another medication. This is called a “prescribing cascade” and is all too common and one re[...]
One term that is searched frequently on this site is geriatric syndrome known as a condition that is not a disease entity itself but known to lead to morbidity and mortality, and a[...]
Pain is a condition that affects many older adults and can have many causes. For most, the cause is osteoarthritis, for which pain is managed with potentially harmful medications. [...]
I’ve posted for some time on the potential for some older adults to experience life-altering adverse effects from statins, such as Crestor (rosuvastatin), Zocor (simvastatin)[...]
Here’s a link from AskAPatient.com, a consumer-based website that allows people to post what they believe are side-effects from their medications. Although there is no validation t[...]
“Something old, something new” is what I thought of when I read this article from 1987, that proposed tracking OTC use among elders in the community in order to study O[...]
