What Should Clinicians Do for Older Adults with Polypharmacy and Depression? [Letter]

Abstract

Ling-Ling Zhu,1 Quan Zhou2 1Geriatric VIP Ward, Division of Nursing, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310009, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310009, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Quan Zhou, Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310009, People’s Republic of China, Tel [phone], Email [email protected] View the original paper by Dr Cheng and colleagues. A Response to Letter has been published for this article.  

Keywords

• antidepressant
• deprescribing
• depression
• drug-drug interaction
• geriatric nursing
• polypharmacy
• rational medication use