MinMed: Do Older Adults do Better With Less Medication

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA · Mar 23, 2022

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PURPOSE

To organize primary care providers, and their older patients with polypharmacy, in a way that permits them to collaboratively determine the lowest effective dose of all amenable medications. And, in so doing, to provide randomized controlled trial evidence as to whether minimizing medication doses improves health outcomes in this population.

HYPOTHESIS

1. Primary care providers can easily reduce medication doses in their own patients when organized appropriately to do so.
2. Determining and utilizing the minimum effective dose of all medications will prolong independence, reduce ...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Attached to participating primary care providers
• • 2. Community dwelling (i.e. not living in a nursing home or supportive living facility)
• • 3. ≥80 years of age
• • 4. Using ≥6 long-term oral medications (defined as orally administered medications dispensed ≥2 times in the preceding 200 days)
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • None