Less is more medicine!

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