Temporal trends in anticholinergic medication prescription in older people: repeated cross-sectional analysis of population prescribing data

Abstract

: despite increasing evidence of adverse outcomes, the proportion of older people prescribed anticholinergic medications and the proportion with a high anticholinergic exposure has increased between 1995 and 2010. Prescription of individual drug is small so cumulative anticholinergic scores may help future efforts to reduce anticholinergic prescription in older people.