Posts Tagged ‘elderly women & prescrition drug abuse’
Anxiety, Depression and Medication Abuse in Elders- How Do You Assess?
Psychosocial and functional assessment of elders can reveal the presence of anxiety, depression and substance abuse. All of these which create giant, holes in an older person’s safety net. Substance…
Read MorePrescription Drug Abuse in the Elderly- Worse with Women
The GCM Assessing the elderly client in a geriatric Assessment needs to include prescription drug abuse. Drug dependency and misuse in the elderly population entails both the use of…
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