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September 17 is World Patient Safety Day: Let's Prevent Medication Overload

Monday, September 12, 2022 9:39 AM | Anonymous

SEPTEMBER 17th - WORLD PATIENT SAFETY DAY

 

September 17 is World Patient Safety Day: Let’s prevent medication overload

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Did you know? Around the globe, September 17 is the World Health Organization World Patient Safety Day. This year’s theme is Medication Safety: Medication Without Harm and Manitoba Association of Senior Communities is excited to be helping spread the word to promote the safe use of medications.

Medications can help us in many different ways. But medications can also cause us harm. When we take more medications than we need, it is called medication overload. Medication overload also means taking too many medications that, together, cause more harm than good.

Medication overload can cause drug interactions and harmful side effects such as falls and fractures, memory loss, hospitalizations and even death. Medication overload affects a lot of people: did you know that 1 in 10 hospital admissions in older adults are the result of a medication side effect?

Find out how to prevent medication overload by checking out this short and engaging brochure : click here to access the brochure. Help us prevent medication overload: share this resource with your friends and family!

You can also check out deprescribingnetwork.ca to discover other medication safety resources.


Archwood 55 Plus Inc is a non-profit organization serving seniors 55 plus located at  565 Guilbault Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba  R2J 0R2

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