National Medicines Symposium 2024 – Session 2: Deprescribing

Описание: Optimal medication management in older people requires a multifaceted and collaborative approach with a variety of strategies and interventions to support appropriate medicines use.

This session explored practical ways to reduce the risks of medicine use for older Australians. The session featured safe and appropriate approaches to deprescribing of medicines. It highlighted practical guidelines and tools for identifying and safely deprescribing potentially inappropriate medicines. It also focused on the burden of inappropriate polypharmacy from a consumer perspective and highlighted approaches for engaging and empowering patients in decision-making.

Hosted by Ms Tegan Taylor, Journalist and Broadcaster with keynote speakers that included:
• Professor Sarah Hilmer AM, Head of Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Geriatrician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Conjoint Professor of Geriatric Pharmacology, Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney
• Dr Lisa Kouladjian O’Donnell, Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney and Deputy Chair, Australian Deprescribing Network
• Mr Bronte Parkin, Dementia Advocate, Dementia Australia
• Professor Jennifer May AM, National Rural Health Commissioner
• Dr Phoebe Holdenson Kimura, Medical Advisor, ACSQHC

Learning outcomes:
• Understand what is deprescribing and why it is an important element of safe management of medicines for an ageing population
• Learn about some of the key approaches to deprescribing medicines for an ageing population
• Understand the unintended consequences of polypharmacy and how consumers and clinicians can work together
• Understand the challenges rural doctors and other non-medical prescribers face.

00:00 – Approaches to deprescribing of medicines
16:34 – Polypharmacy Consumer Perspective
28:04 – Challenges of quality use of medicines in rural settings
46:03 – Panel Discussion: Medicine related harm and the importance of safe and appropriate use of medicines