By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Law Weekly -- ANN ARBOR, MI - Most older Americans take multiple medicines every day. But a new poll suggests they don’t get - or seek - enough help to make sure those medicines actually mix safely.
That lack of communication could be putting older adults at risk of health problems from interactions between their drugs, and between their prescription drugs and other substances such as over-the-counter medicines, supplements, food and alcohol.
The new results, from the National Poll on Healthy Aging, show that only about one in three older Americans who take at least one prescription drug have talked to anyone about possible drug interactions in the past two years.
Even among those taking six or more different medicines, only 44 percent had talked to someone about …
CITATION: (2017-12-17), Lack of communication puts older adults at risk of clashes between their medicines, Managed Care Law Weekly, 5, ISSN: 1551-5060, BUTTER® ID: 014818560
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