Evelyn, 101, undergoes amazing transfomation

BENEFITS OF MEDS REVIEW HIGHLIGHTED

- By KIRSTIE MCCRUM

A 101-YEAR-OLD woman from Middlesbrough has undergone a “remarkable” transformation thanks to a reduction in her medication.

It's due to a partnership between an NHS Trust and a Yorkshire-based private social care provider, which aimed to assess and reduce medications for elderly residents.

Now, the programme that has changed Evelyn Ainsworth's life is set to be rolled out nationwide.

In a UK first, East Lancashire NHS Hospitals Trust worked on a project with Constantia Healthcare Group.

The partnership looked at how anticholinergic burden (ACB) scoring could be used to reduce medications taken by the 300-plus residents living in the West Yorkshire-headquartered care company’s nine residential homes in Teesside, Yorkshire and Lancashire.

Evelyn, who lives in the company’s Middlesbrough Grange Care Home, fell regularly and spent much of her time asleep. That was before a reduction in her medication improved her overall health and wellbeing.

Evelyn is just one of the many people to benefit from the project, which has resulted in medications being reduced for dozens of residents.