Hi All,
Hope I am not overloading you with information but I can not help it I have to. There is news that really gets to me, sometimes sadness than shivvers and anger and luckely again joy

This is my true story that relates to the subsequent story from Dr. Alan Inglis Newsletter and his tip to go to this link: www.dcri.duke.edu/ccge/curtis/beers.html
So Now I am giving it to you.

My lovely dear old mom - no longer with us- was falling all over the place not " here " from time to time and than she did a thing, going against all advise she decided to stop with one of her prescribed medications suddenly - her Higher self probably had wispered in het ear STOP the medication - ( cannot remember which, had something to do with her shaking sort of Parkinson). I am not saying this was very wise thing to do to stop at once and when I heard this I thought but in her case it worked well. She did not have the falling all over the place and she was "present" again.It's one example what a mixture of medicines can do.

Dementia, or drugged?
An elderly woman was once brought into the local hospital where I worked, exhibiting symptoms that included confusion, uncoordinated movement and memory problems.

When faced with such symptoms, most doctors think "stroke." Once they rule that out, they turn to dementia. But here was the real problem—she was over- drugged.

It made me wonder: How many elderly patients are diagnosed with dementia each year that are really just taking too many—or the wrong—medications?

I googled
The Beers List: Potentially Inappropriate Medications for the ElderlyFick DM, Cooper JW, Wade WE, Waller JL, Maclean JR, Beers MH. Updating the Beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults: ...
www.dcri.duke.edu/ccge/curtis/beers.html - 20k

The Beers Criteria (or Beers List) provide a list of medications that are generally considered inappropriate when given to elderly people because these medications may pose more risk than benefit. For a wide variety of individual reasons, the medications listed tend to cause side effects in the elderly due to the physiologic changes of aging. The criteria were created through consensus of a panel of experts by using the Delphi method; they were originally published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 1991 and were most recently updated in 2003.

Love, Light and good Health
and be a Weird, Wild and Wonderful elderly if you are one or not
Pinky

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Pinky,

Thanks for that list of elderly meds! When I worked as a physical therapist in a nursing home, people would be on a long list of drugs. The list would sometimes actually say that #8 ailment was because of the drug given for #6 problem, and then #11 drug was for the side effects of drug #8!
Yikes
Holly