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Taking more than five pills a day? ‘Deprescribing’ can prevent harm, especially for older people
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Taking more than five pills a day? ‘Deprescribing’ can prevent harm, especially for older people

by Emily Reeve, Jacinta L Johnson, Janet Sluggett and Kate O’Hara, The Conversation Credit: ShutterstockPeople are living longer and with more chronic health conditions—including heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and dementia—than ever before. As societies continue to grow older, one pressing concern is the use of multiple medications, a phenomenon known as polypharmacy. About 1 million...