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The Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults, commonly called the Beers List, [1] are guidelines published by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) for healthcare professionals to help improve the safety of prescribing medications for adults 65 years and older in all except palliative settings.
Mark Howard Beers (April 24, 1954 – February 28, 2009) [1] was an American geriatrician whose research on drug interactions among the elderly led to the creation of the eponymous Beers criteria, which lists prescription medications that may have deleterious side effects in older patients.
Geriatrics is the branch of medicine that focuses on health care of the elderly. It aims to promote health and to prevent and treat diseases and disabilities in older adults. It aims to promote health and to prevent and treat diseases and disabilities in older adults.
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Journal of Geriatric Cardiology; Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology; Journal of Gerontological Nursing; The Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging; Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; Journal of the American Medical Directors Association; The Journals of Gerontology
The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering geriatric psychiatry. It was established in 1993 and is published by Elsevier on behalf of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. The editor-in-chief is Charles F. Reynolds, III (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center).
He has also received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Indian Academy of Geriatrics [27] in 2009, from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in 2010 and from the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, the same year. [2] In 2012, the Government of India included Natarajan in the Republic Day honours list for the civilian award of ...
The categories are varied and include processes or ingredients not usually regarded as defining beer styles in themselves, such as cask ale or gluten-free beer. [2] [3] [4] Beer terms such as ale or lager cover a wide variety of beer styles, and are better thought of as broad categories of beer styles.