Prescribing and medication management

Managing medicines in older people with multimorbidity is a fine balance, requiring input from the individual themselves, their support network and the wider multidisciplinary team. This issue focuses on how to get the best out of medicines, exploring deprescribing, structured medication reviews, and evidence-based interventions. This content is limited to members only.

The BGS Pharmacy Group have assembled a list of helpful resources to guide clinicians on medicines management and deprescribing in older adults.

This article lays out UK Health Security Agency’s guidance on how healthcare professionals can best prepare for hot weather and how to look after patients in extreme heat.

This document describes the care home sector across the UK as it currently stands, how health and wellbeing has traditionally been supported in care homes and sets out what good healthcare provision in a care home environment should look like.

The Patients Association's Care Home Charter was launched in 2019 to improve medication practices for people living in care homes across the UK.

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people examines the issue of polypharmacy at the end of life.

SCIE has published a guide and created an interactive web resource for home care managers providing medicines support.

Collection of A&A articles covering current treatment, preventative methods, and future strategies to combat the consequences of dementia, providing an update on the advances of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions.

Falls are a frequent and frightening issue for patients and staff, and they have physical and psychological consequences for individuals and society. They are costly in human and financial terms (National Institute for Health and Clinical ExceIlence 2004).

Infectious diseases account for a significant proportion of hospital admissions and deaths in the elderly. Unfortunately the immunological response to vaccines in older individuals is less than that in younger adults. We assess best practice in immunisation programmes among older people.

The rate of older people undergoing surgical procedures is increasing faster than the rate of population ageing . Despite this progress, older surgical patients remain at increased risk.

This page brings together guidance and practical advice for the management of older adults with COVID-19 in the community, including drug treatment and examples of standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Older people are particularly at risk from complications as a result of COVID-19 and many are likely to already be taking medication for other conditions.

This chapter of the Silver Book II covers the presentation of common geriatric conditions in an urgent care context.

Managing medicines in older people with multimorbidity is a fine balance, requiring input from the individual themselves, their support network and the wider multidisciplinary team. This issue focuses on how to get the best out of medicines, exploring deprescribing, structured medication reviews, and evidence-based interventions. This content is limited to members only.