Targeting medication-related falls in older patients

In fact, more than a third of adults 65 or older take a tumble each year, and a quarter of them require hospitalization as a result, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill write in the latest issue of The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy. And older adults who take at least four medications a day have double or triple the risk of falling as peers who don't take that many.