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Tip Sheet: Alternatives For Medications Listed In The AGS Beers Criteria® For Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use In Older Adults

Alternatives for Medications Listed in the AGS Beers Criteria® for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults

Recently, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) released the 2019 AGS Beers Criteria® for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. For more than 20 years, the Beers Criteria have been a valuable resource for healthcare providers about the safety of prescribing drugs for older people.

To accompany the updated AGS Beers Criteria® in 2015, the AGS also developed a list of safer medications that are alternatives to some of the medications listed in the criteria. This first list of alternatives focuses on those medications that are used in various quality measures, which are used by America's health plans to measure performance on important aspects of care. Your healthcare provider may choose to substitute these alternatives in place of potentially inappropriate medications included in the criteria.

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