Polypharmacy Management in Elderly Patients with Mental Disorders
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychiatry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2022) | Viewed by 307
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pharmacology; clinical pharmacy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polypharmacy is pressing and important problem in elderly patients with mental disorders. To improve their Quality of Life (QOL), polypharmacy should be more discussed. Here, we invited 2 young energetic pharmacists and 2 famous professors. They major in mental disorders.
Four representative mental diseases, i.e., depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and dementia are tarageted in this issue. All of authors will discuss the reason why polypharmacy is caused and describe the counterplan.
Various data in elderly patients with mental diseases are collected and discussed about polypharmacy.
We surely hope that this issue will help the achievement of safe and secure medication by proper prescription to improve elder patients’ QOL.
Dr. Takao Shimazoe
Prof. Dr. Hiroyuki Kamei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polypharmacy
- mental disease
- depression
- schizophrenia
- anxiety
- dimentia
