Concise advice: Introducing a new clinically focused BJCP series on evidence‐based (de)prescribing in challenging situations

As we age, the likelihood of long-term conditions, those that can be controlled by medication but not cured, accumulates. Multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) leads to polypharmacy, the concurrent use of multiple medicines. In England alone, more than 70% of people over the age of 75 are in receipt of at least three prescribed medicines.1 Polypharmacy is often entirely appropriate and has positive consequences for the vast majority of...