Many older adults take medicines to help control diseases like diabetes and depression, or to manage risky conditions like high blood pressure and abnormal cholesterol. While medicines can help you treat your health conditions, some can create problems for your brain. This short blog discusses why this happens, what groups of medicines can affect your brain, and how to get help with controlling the reactions or side effects that these medicines might cause.

WHAT HAPPENS AS I AGE?

During normal aging, older adults’ bodies change in ways that affect how they process and react to medicines. Your brain’s physical structure and abilities change as you age. Your circulatory and digestive systems, liver, and kidneys slow down and can affect how fast medicines enter and leave your body. Weight changes may affect how much medicine you need and how long it stays in your body. So, your body’s ability to use medicines changes and so does its reactions to them.

Many older adults have health problems that require them to take more than one medicine. These medicines may interact with each other or with food, drink, vitamins, supplements, natural products, alcohol, or other existing health problems. For example, alcohol mixed with some drugs can slow you down, cause confusion, or affect the way your brain functions.

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