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See Latest ArticlesChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Update on Diagnosis and Management Issues in Older Adults
Drugs & Aging, 09/21/09
Nazir SA et al. – The management of elderly patients with COPD should encompass a multidisciplinary approach. An evaluation of patients' nutritional status and mental health should be undertaken, in addition to assessing their lung function and functional impairment. Significant underlying co–morbidities should be evaluated and treated to derive the maximal benefit of therapy. Specific therapy for COPD should start with cessation of exposure to the most important risk factor, tobacco smoke. Smoking cessation rates in the elderly have not declined, and this may reflect an underlying reluctance by physicians to counsel and offer smoking cessation therapies to the elderly. Unlike oxygen therapy in hypoxaemic patients, bronchodilators and corticosteroids do not decrease mortality in COPD patients and they are primarily directed towards symptom relief. However, they do have a positive effect on QOL and exacerbation rates.
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