A new study conducted by the University of British Columbia says Canada urgently needs a national strategy to ensure people over 65 are prescribed appropriate medications, because the cost of dealing with harmful drugs has reached nearly $2 billion dollars a year.
The study was done by Professor Steve Morgan of the UBC saying physiological changes associated with aging alter the effects of many medications.
Dauphin's Multipurpose Senior Centre Administrator, Andre Lorrain said, "This problem has been going on for several years, one of the main factors is not monitoring the medication that people are taking."
Based on the 2011 Census, Statistics Canada indicated Dauphin's senior population to be roughly 4 per cent.
