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Suggested Citation:"FRONT MATTER." Institute of Medicine. 1997. Pharmacokinetics and Drug Interactions in the Elderly and Special Issues in Elderly African-American Populations: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5854.
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Pharmacokinetics and Drug Interactions in the Elderly and Special Issues in Elderly African-American Populations

Workshop Summary

Committee on Pharmacokinetics and Drug Interactions in the Elderly

Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health Division of Health Sciences Policy

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C. 1997

Suggested Citation:"FRONT MATTER." Institute of Medicine. 1997. Pharmacokinetics and Drug Interactions in the Elderly and Special Issues in Elderly African-American Populations: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5854.
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Suggested Citation:"FRONT MATTER." Institute of Medicine. 1997. Pharmacokinetics and Drug Interactions in the Elderly and Special Issues in Elderly African-American Populations: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5854.
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COMMITTEE ON PHARMACOKINETICS AND DRUG INTERACTIONS IN THE ELDERLY

LESLIE Z. BENET* (Chair), Professor and Chairman,

Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

MARK H. BEERS, Senior Director of Geriatrics,

Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania

D. CRAIG BRATER, Chairman,

Department of Medicine,

Director,

Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Indiana University School of Medicine

DAVID J. GREENBLATT, Professor and Chairman,

Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Tufts University School of Medicine

PATRICIA D. KROBOTH, Professor and Chair,

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy

HENRI R. MANASSE, JR.,* Executive Vice President,

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Bethesda, Maryland

MARK MONANE, Director,

Disease State Management—Geriatrics, Merck Medco Managed Care, Montvale, New Jersey

BRUCE POLLOCK, Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology and Director,

Geriatric Psychopharmacology Program, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

JANICE B. SCHWARTZ, Professor of Medicine and Chief of Clinical Pharmacology and Geriatric Medicine,

Northwestern University Medical School

ROBERT TAYLOR, Chairman,

Department of Pharmacology, Howard University College of Medicine

RAYMOND WOOSLEY, Chairman,

Department of Pharmacology, Georgetown University Medical Center

Institute of Medicine Staff

CATHARYN T. LIVERMAN, Study Director

CAROLYN E. FULCO, Study Director

CARRIE E. INGALLS, Research Associate

THOMAS WETTERHAN, Administrative Assistant/Research Assistant

AMELIA MATHIS, Project Assistant

CONSTANCE PECHURA, Director,

Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health

VALERIE P. SETLOW, Director,

Division of Health Sciences Policy

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Member, Institute of Medicine.

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Reports in the popular press about the increasing longevity of Americans and the aging of the baby boom generation are constant reminders that the American population is becoming older. Consequently, an issue of growing medical, health policy, and social concern is the appropriate and rational use of medications by the elderly.

Although becoming older does not necessarily correlate with increasing illness, aging is associated with anatomical and physiological changes that affect how medications are metabolized by the body. Furthermore, aging is often related to an increased frequency of chronic illness (often combined with multiple health problems) and an increased use of medications. Thus, a better understanding of the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs; of the physiologic responses to those medications; as well as of the interactions among multiple medications is crucial for improving the health of older people.

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