Revista de Envelhecimento e Medicina Geriátrica

Profound Demographic Change in Elders

Ayaka Isobe

We help at a profound demographic change, which is the rapid-fire aging of the society. Although some people reach a veritably old age fully free of physical affections, utmost seniors are exposed to adding frailty, disability and poor quality of life. More frequently than not, they've multiple attendant conditions, which are more and more delicate to manage by the general guru alone. It's extremely grueling to establish a good medical approach in senior cases, and in order to get a complete substantiation of all medical problems and to help or reduce complains from the cases or their families, the croakers prefer to order multitudinous redundant tests, procedures and interdisciplinary consults – best known as protective drug-which would affect in further and further medicines and salutary restrictions recommended, and which would end up in polypharmacy, therapeuticalnon-compliance and iatrogenic.