Study tackles polypharmacy issues during lockdown

New research aims to help GPs and pharmacists with a more structured way of managing their patients who are on multiple medications during the pandemic. Older people and family carers often find medication management challenging and burdensome particularly for complex regimens and researchers say the new approach rooted in real-world experience is needed to tackle the €œunrivalled complexity€ many older people and family carers face. They identified five ‘key burdens’ faced by older people and their family carers. These included ‘ambiguity’, where the purpose of medicines was not explained clearly, through to ‘fragmentation’ from having to deal with lots of different