{"id":238,"date":"2024-04-05T02:09:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T02:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/?p=238"},"modified":"2024-08-09T12:36:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T12:36:04","slug":"s10-an-ageing-population-smarter-safer-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/2024\/04\/05\/s10-an-ageing-population-smarter-safer-care\/","title":{"rendered":"S10: An ageing population: smarter, safer care"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><p><strong>27 August 2024 | 15:00-16:30<\/strong><\/p><br><p><em>Format: Presentation<\/em><br><em>Stream: Populations<\/em><\/p><br><p><br><br><strong>Part 1: Smart, safe, active ageing in Hong Kong &#8211; the way forward<\/strong><\/p><br><p><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/2024\/04\/09\/donald-li\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Donald Li<\/strong><\/a> Elderly Commission, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong<\/p><br><p>\u00a0<\/p><br><p><br><br><strong>Part 2: Care of elderly &amp; medical-social collaboration<\/strong><\/p><br><p><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/2024\/04\/09\/ty-chan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tak-Yeung Chan<\/strong><\/a> Hospital Authority, Hong Kong<\/p><br><p>\u00a0<\/p><br><p><br><br><strong>Part 3: Appropriate legal matters for end-of-life care<\/strong><\/p><br><p><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/2024\/04\/09\/raymond-lo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Raymond Lo<\/strong><\/a> British Medical Association, Hong Kong<\/p><br><p>\u00a0<\/p><br><p><br><br><strong>Part 4: Polypharmacy and potentially-inappropriate medications in the elderly cancer patients receiving cancer treatment<\/strong><\/p><br><p>Most of the elderly cancer patients have pre-existing illnesses. Excessive medications would lead not only futility, but also result in adverse outcomes. This study was a prospective cohort study conducted among the elderly non-hematologic cancer patients (= 65 years old) whom a medical oncologist had decided suitable for systemic therapy. We found that among elderly cancer patients suitable for systemic cancer therapy, around two-thirds of patients had polypharmacy (PP) and potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs). Higher co-morbidity index was the sole significant predictor of PP; while only primary lung cancer was associated with PIMs. PP was associated with unplanned hospitalization.<\/p><br><p><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/2024\/04\/05\/chanyoot-bandidwattanawong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Chanyoot Bandidwattanawong<\/strong><\/a> Navamindradhiraj University, Thailand<\/p><br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 August 2024 | 15:00-16:30Format: PresentationStream: PopulationsPart 1: Smart, safe, active ageing in Hong Kong &#8211; the way forwardDonald Li Elderly Commission, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong\u00a0Part 2: Care of elderly &amp; medical-social collaborationTak-Yeung Chan Hospital Authority, Hong Kong\u00a0Part 3: Appropriate legal matters for end-of-life careRaymond Lo British Medical Association, Hong Kong\u00a0Part 4: Polypharmacy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/hong-kong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}