18. August 2018
Older adults with multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and complex health needs are the major consumer of health care. Ensuring that medicines are used safely, effectively, and delivered efficiently in this population is challenging. In this context, the approach to medicines delivery should seek to overcome some of the difficulties of delivering medicines to older people, and ensure each medication is delivered by the optimal and most convenient route for the patient in question. However, this poses...
10. July 2016
We previously prepared and pharmaceutically evaluated ginger orally disintegrating (OD) tablets, opti- mized the base formulation, and carried out a clinical trial in healthy adults in their 20s and 50s to measure their effect on salivary substance P (SP) level and improved swallowing function. In this study, we conducted clinical trials using the ginger OD tablets in older people to clinically evaluate the improvements in swallow- ing function resulting from the functional components of the...