A recent study released by JAMA Internal Medicine, encourages empowering seniors to discuss the use of sleeping pills with their physicians.  You may be familiar with many news headlines concerned with the use of sleeping pills and incidents including memory problems, falls, fractures and even motor vehicle accidents.  Dr. Cara Tannenbaum, Pharmacy Research Chair and geriatrician who released the study, is very concerned with  the use of sleeping pills among seniors. Dr. Tannenbaum advocates that patients be involved in the decision of whether to use sleeping pills and possible taper their use.  An empowerment intervention handout was devised which described the […]