Senior Facts for
your consideration........................
Fact:
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Seniors are most at risk for dangerous
drug interactions: |
51% of seniors utilize 2 or more
pharmacies, |
46% visit three or more doctors, |
53% use more than 5 prescription
medications, |
25% of hospital and nursing home
admissions among older Americans |
are the result of improper medication
use.1 |
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Fact:
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Inadequate drug therapy costs $77
billion/year in the U.S.2 |
Fact:
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Medicare pays less than 20% of nursing
facility expenses.3 |
Fact:
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Drug related illnesses accounted for 4%
of emergency room (ER) visits during one month at a teaching hospital,
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60% of the drug related illnesses were preventable.
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These ER visits were caused by
non-compliance (58%), adverse drug events (32%) and inappropriate
prescribing (10%).4 |
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Fact:
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Medication errors are the source of 7,000
deaths annually.5 |
Fact:
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2 out of 3 single adults and 1 out of 3
couples become impoverished after 13 weeks in a nursing facility.6 |
Seniors may avoid admission a higher
level of care or to a nursing facility by optimizing the use of their medications
and supplements. |
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1. GAO Senate
Testimony, March 22, 2001 |
2. Arch Intern Med.
1995 |
3. WebMD Feature
Archives, April 2002 |
4. Am J Health Syst
Pharm., 1996 |
5. Institute of
Medicine, 2000 |
6. Health
Insurance Association of America (HIAA), 2000 |
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