Geriatric-specific info on OTC labels advised by Alliance for Aging Research.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
"GERIATRIC-RELEVANT" INFORMATION INCLUSION ON OTC LABELS recommended by the Alliance for Aging Research in a report, "When Medicine Hurts Instead of Helps," released June 9. The report outlines the causes and "economic and human...costs" of medication errors that occur in the elderly population and provides eight recommendations to "address and alleviate" medication errors and the problems associated with what the group calls a "silent epidemic."