Beers Criteria

Those same old drugs won't work forever

As we age our bodies go through changes. No, this is not a post about puberty.

We will be discussing the Beers Criteria. This is a guideline for physicians and patients describing the danger of drugs. in patients over the age of 65.

The idea behind this list is that the risk-reward ratio is too high to warrant the use of certain medications in the geria…