Highlights From the 2019 AGS Beers Criteria® Updates

Host Amie Taggart Blaszczyk, Pharm.D., BCGP, BCPS, FASCP interviews Dr. Creaque V Charles about their article in the February 2020 issue of The Senior Care Pharmacist, Highlights From the 2019 AGS Beers Criteria® Updates. The AGS Beers Criteria® is intended to improve and optimize the care of the geriatric population. It serves as a guide to minimize older adults' exposure to PIMs whenever possible. As with previously published updates to the AGS Beers Criteria®, the 2019 update outlines the following: recommendations, rationale, and quality of the recommendations, as well as the strength of the recommendations.