As you get older, your doctor is likely to recommend certain medications to improve your health and longevity. These might include a prescription for a specific health concern or over-the-counter ...

Older adults need to be educated when ... Keep a running list of medications in the front of every chart, marking off what they no longer take and listing what is added at each visit.

Using a chart of blood sugar levels by ... as a result of taking too much diabetes medication. This type of overtreatment is common in older adults. Diet is important for managing diabetes.

A chart-review study of medication errors in adult inpatients by Bates et al. [1] found that, for 530 errors identified on three medical units over a 51-day period, missing doses accounted for 53% ...