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The process of aging is becoming increasingly important as the avarage longevity of the population increases and the number of people with both age associated impairment and diseases of old age rises sharply. Multiply drug use increases with age because they have more chronic illness that require and long term drug therapies. Multiply drug use is the most important problem in elderly. In elderly the dose should be individualized, pay attention the patient’s compliance to the treatment and knowing that drugs do have unwanted affects as well as benefical actions. Rational drug use in elderly is of greater importance because of phgsiological, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes and poor compliance. This article comprised polypharmacy in elderly, problem of drug compliance and problem solving

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