Abstract
Becoming older is not easy in our society due to insufficient preparations for the geriatric population. Older persons are often excluded from the everyday lifestyle of society. Ageing becomes a solitary process. One issue is that drugs are mostly used by older persons, but these older persons are not included in clinical trials. While problems occur when people became frail, frailty can be reversed. Thus, the geriatric patient has to be approached differently from the adult patient.
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Baeyens, JP. (2016). Old, Very Old and Frail. In: Stegemann, S. (eds) Developing Drug Products in an Aging Society. AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series, vol 26. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43099-7_4
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