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Reviewed by Dr. Maria Chen, PharmD Nearly 70% of adults over 65 take at least one dietary supplement daily, according to the National Institutes of Health, yet many of those supplements interact with prescription medications or provide no measurable benefit. Knowing which supplements genuinely help your parent, which are harmless
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Reviewed by the How To Help Your Elders medical review team If your parent's pill organizer keeps getting fuller and nobody can explain why every medication is still necessary, you're witnessing a pattern that affects millions of older adults. Deprescribing is the supervised, deliberate process of
Medications and Treatment
This article is meant to help you understand medication management better. It does not replace medical advice. Always consult with your parent's doctor before making changes to their medications. Your parent takes a variety of over-the-counter medications without thinking much about them. An antacid for heartburn. Ibuprofen for
Medications and Treatment
This article is meant to help you understand medication management better. It does not replace medical advice. Always consult with your parent's doctor before making changes to their medications. Your mother has been taking the same blood pressure medication for fifteen years with no problems. Then one day
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Reviewed by the How To Help Your Elders medical review team If your parent makes monthly pharmacy trips that eat up time, energy, and money, mail-order pharmacy can eliminate that cycle entirely. Medications arrive at their door in 90-day supplies, often at lower cost than retail, with automatic refills handling
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Reviewed by Dr. Maria Chen, PharmD Medication refusal almost always has a specific, fixable reason behind it: side effects, disbelief in the diagnosis, difficulty swallowing, or cognitive decline. Identifying that reason and solving it directly works far more reliably than arguing, and roughly 50% of older adults do not take
Medications and Treatment
This article is meant to help you understand medication management better. It does not replace medical advice. Always consult with your parent's doctor before making changes to their medications. Your parent sits in front of seven prescription bottles and struggles to remember which pill to take and when.
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Reviewed by the How To Help Your Elders medical review team When you fill your parent's pillbox with five or six medications from different bottles, those pills are about to meet in your parent's bloodstream, and some of them don't get along. Medication interactions
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This article is meant to help you understand medication management better. It does not replace medical advice. Always consult with your parent's doctor before making changes to their medications. You sit in the doctor's office with your parent. The doctor writes a prescription, hands it over,
Medications and Treatment
This article is meant to help you understand medication management better. It does not replace medical advice. Always consult with your parent's doctor before making changes to their medications. Your father sits at the kitchen table with seven prescription bottles lined up in front of him. One for
Medications and Treatment
Reviewed by the How To Help Your Elders medical review team If your parent has been taking the same medications for years and nobody has stepped back to ask whether every pill is still necessary, you're not alone. A dedicated medication review with the doctor is one of
Living Arrangements
Reviewed by the How To Help Your Elders Team Regular adult day programs aren't always the right fit for someone with dementia. Specialized dementia day programs design every activity, every space, and every staff interaction around how memory loss actually works. This guide explains what they offer, who