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This fact sheet presents the pharmacokinetic principles essential for dosing medications for elderly patients in any setting.


Briefly summarizes age-related changes in pharmaco-dynamics crucial for effective medication prescribing in the elderly.


The fact sheet provides no clinical examples.


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