Key result
Hypertension management in older adults requires individualized treatment strategies and shared decision making to account for complexities such as frailty and dementia.
This review highlights the complexities of managing hypertension in frail older adults and emphasizes the need for individualized treatment strategies, including shared decision making.
Complicates hypertension management in frail older adults with multimorbidity; leaves open tailored strategies beyond isolated trial evidence.
Hypertension is a common condition in older people, but is often one of many conditions, particularly in frail older people, and so is rarely managed in isolation in the real world-which belies the bulk of the evidence upon which is treatment decisions are often based. In this article, we discuss the issues of ageing, including frailty and dementia, and their impact upon blood pressure management. We examine the evidence base for managing hypertension in older people, and explore some therapeutic ideas that might influence treatment decisions and strategies, including shared decision making.
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Conroy et al. (2018) conducted a review in Hypertension. Hypertension treatment was evaluated. Hypertension management in older adults requires individualized treatment strategies and shared decision making to account for complexities such as frailty and dementia.
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