Article: Nursing home residents more susceptible to drug side effects.

Drug side effects -- such as dry mouth, difficulty urinating, increased falls and anxiety -- are mistakenly blamed on aging process, according to researchers

Elderly nursing home residents are more likely than elderly people living in the community to be prescribed drugs with side effects that often are mistaken for the effects of old age, according to researchers.

Jacobo Mintzer, M.D., of the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, and Alistair Burns, M.D., of the University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, said in one year alone, 97% of nursing home residents receive prescription drugs, compared with 71% of elderly ...

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