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Clinical practice guidelines currently do not adequately define 'elderly' persons and provide limited guidance on how to apply treatment recommendations to older persons. The representation of 'elderly' in guidelines needs to be less based on chronological age or generic definitions focusing more on establishing a direct link between an individual patient's characteristics and the pharmacology of their prescribed medication. Clinical guidelines that do not offer any practical descriptions of the features of ageing that are specifically related to the use of pharmacotherapy, or how to assess these in individual patients, render decision-making challenging.
Singh et al. (Mon,) studied this question.