Less is more medicine!

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