Medical Training AIPolypharmacy and Deprescribing in Older Adults
You'll be able to systematically review an older adult's medication list, flag high-risk drugs and interactions, and build a stepwise deprescribing plan.
What this track covers
This track covers medication management in older adults, including identifying potentially inappropriate medications, assessing anticholinergic and sedative burden, and recognizing clinically significant drug-drug and drug-disease interactions. It also addresses tapering strategies for common high-risk drug classes and how to communicate medication changes with patients and caregivers.
What you will practice
- Run a systematic medication review across an older adult's full drug list
- Screen a regimen against current Beers Criteria categories
- Spot renal- or hepatic-driven dosing concerns in a case
- Sequence a taper plan for a sedative-hypnotic or PPI
- Frame a medication-change conversation for a hesitant patient or caregiver
Simulator scenario
An older adult on multiple chronic medications presents with new falls and confusion, requiring the clinician to identify contributing drugs and propose a deprescribing sequence.
Board question topics
- Beers Criteria classifications
- Anticholinergic burden assessment
- Drug-drug and drug-disease interactions
- Deprescribing sequencing and withdrawal recognition
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