Less is more medicine!

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Across
  1. 6. Subjective evidence of a disease or physical disturbances observed by the patient.
  2. 8. Backing off medications when doses are too high, or stropping medications that may be causing harm or are no longer needed.
  3. 11. Abnormal memory loss that can have many causes including physical illness and medications.
  4. 12. Use of multiple medications.
  5. 15. Too much of it involves excessive worry and lasts a long time.
  6. 18. Alternatives remedies that are not medications
  7. 19. Unpleasant experience that travels along nerves to spinal cord and then to the brain. Common experience for elderly.
  8. 20. Healthcare professional that diagnoses medical conditions. He or she prescribes, monitors and reviews medications.
  9. 21. Burning sensation in the chest that can extend to the neck, throat, and face. It is the primary symptom of gastroesophageal reflux (commonly called acid reflux).
  10. 23. To officially tell someone to use (a medicine, therapy, diet, etc.) as a remedy or treatment.
  11. 26. Difficulty getting enough sleep or poor quality sleep.
  12. 27. Being able to control and maintain your body’s position comfortably.
  13. 28. Organ considered to be the primary site of drug metabolism.
  14. 31. High blood pressure is called silent killer that can lead to heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease and eye disease.
  15. 32. Medical condition when the amount of sugar in blood becomes too high.
  16. 33. Organ considered to be the main excretory site by which a drug is eliminated.
Down
  1. 1. Serious medication side effects.
  2. 2. Good diet will help improve the way your medications work, help reduce side effects and help you maintain the energy you need to carry out your daily activities. The opposite (malnutrition) can be very detrimental to your health.
  3. 3. It is the process by which the body breaks down medication so it can be removed from the body.
  4. 4. Acronym for Proton Pump Inhibitor, a medication used to treat acid reflux
  5. 5. Medical condition when you have trouble controlling your bladder and leak urine.
  6. 7. Talking with a healthcare professional to check if all your medications are still necessary.
  7. 9. Examples in that class of medications: lorazepam, diazepam, oxazepam, temazepam and bromazepam.
  8. 10. Any activity that involves moving the body: housework, gardening, climbing stairs. Use it or lose it!
  9. 13. Healthcare professional that monitors, reviews, and gives advice on medications.
  10. 14. Pressure exerted by the blood upon the walls of the blood vessels and arteries
  11. 16. The most common peril’s facing older adults: accidentally and unexpectedly land on the ground.
  12. 17. Slowly stop taking a medication with the help of a healthcare professional.
  13. 22. Medical condition that can cause long-term sadness, anger, frustration, interfere with sleep. It can sap energy and social life.
  14. 24. Communication between prescribers, pharmacists, other care professionals and patients regarding benefits and harms of medications.
  15. 25. Possibility of loss, injury, disease, or death.
  16. 27. The presence of glucose in the blood.
  17. 29. Medical condition that results when there are low numbers of red blood cells. Many causes including: poor diet, chronic disease or drug interactions.
  18. 30. Acronym for Canadian Deprescribing Network, a group of individuals who are committed to improving the health of Canadians by reducing the use of harmful medicines and enhancing access to non-drug alternatives. Website: deprescribing.orgOnline resources for clinicians and patients to help with deprescribing.
  19. 32. Sudden confusion and result of abnormal functioning of the brain that can have many causes including physical illness and medications.