🧩 Medication reviews may need to look beyond the medication list. A new longitudinal study found lonely older women were more likely to initiate potentially inappropriate pain & psychotropic meds, highlighting the importance of addressing social needs in med. optimization. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3xx994te

💡 Got an idea to promote medication appropriateness and deprescribing? Last year, healthcare students across Canada turned their ideas into workshops, simulations, documentaries, and more. 📣 Applications for our 2026–2027 Student Funding Program open in late August. What will you create? 🚀

Some medications can make it harder to cope with extreme heat. 🌡 We're pleased to see Heal Canada adapt our evidence-informed article on medications & heat waves for the June issue of E3 Advocacy, helping this important information reach even more Canadians (pp. 108–112). 📚 tinyurl.com/4cbun8jf

Clinicians have tools to identify potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) in older adults—but what about adults under 65? A new protocol led by our researchers outlines an international modified Delphi study to build expert consensus on PIMs for adults aged 18–65 years. 🔗 tinyurl.com/kpyyverh

😴 A new CMAJ study found 13.2% of older adults filled a sedative prescription within 7 days of discharge; ~1 in 3 were new users. New use was linked to higher risks of falls, ED visits, readmissions & 30-day mortality; prior use was also linked to higher 30-day mortality. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3zjurw9t

Every prescription is a clinical decision & an environmental one. 🌱 A CFP review highlights the ECO-Rx framework, with strategies to reduce the envir. impacts of medications through evidence-based prescribing, med reviews, non-pharmacological therapies and deprescribing. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yswtdnxd

✍🏼 The first benzodiazepine prescription may shape what happens next. An Ontario study of >1.8 million adults found that initial prescriptions >7 days, long-acting benzodiazepines, & multiple benzodiazepines initiated were associated with a lower likelihood of discontinuation. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2h7np7b2

💊 This #IRUMDay2026, the International Society to Improve the Use of Medicines reminds us to "Prescribe with Purpose • Use with Care • [and make] Smart Choices for a Healthy Future." Regular medication reviews and deprescribing are key to better care! 🔗 Learn more: isium.org/events/irum-day-2026/

Build practical deprescribing skills this summer with "Making It Happen: Deprescribing Education Program": A free, self-paced online course for primary care clinicians and trainees, developed by @dalhousie.bsky.social's Optimizing Therapy Through Collaboration (OPTx) team. 🔗 tinyurl.com/c2er9zxh

📣 Call for experts: the WHO is seeking medication safety and deprescribing experts to help develop a new guideline on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of delirium in older adults. Applications are open until July 26, 2026. Learn more below: www.who.int/news-room/ar...

New report from Canada’s Drug Agency: PIM use in older adults with major neurocognitive disorder (2013-2023) Overall PIM use declined; following an MNCD diagnosis, benzodiazepine & anticholingeric use drop but antipsychotic use increased & is sustained. Full report here: tinyurl.com/486hat2d

📸 Pharmacist & researcher Marie-Laure Baroud presenting on med. safety to members of the Centre Polyvalent des Ainés et Ainées in Rimouski-Neigette! She covered the risks of medication overload, deprescribing & the role patients/caregivers play in this process. Thanks for sharing your expertise!

A new @aamc.org article on polypharmacy & deprescribing featuring our Director @dremilymcd.bsky.social & USDeN co-lead @mikesteinman.bsky.social! It highlights Canada’s leadership in this field & our deprescribing curricular framework as a key resource for physician education: tinyurl.com/39cjmwez

👏 Last week, Robin Guyer and Dr. Emily McDonald presented the work of our Indigenization Working Group at the RI-MUHC’s Beyond the Paper Knowledge Mobilization Grant event. As recipients of the grant, they spoke about CADeN's co-creation of medication safety tools aligned with Indigenous priorities.

💰 A new syst. review & meta-analysis finds that community-based deprescribing interventions reduce potentially inappropriate medication use and generate healthcare cost savings. However, considerable heterogeneity was observed across studies. 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New deprescribing resources to reduce fall risk, developed in collab. with the CDC, NCOA, and University of Washington researchers! Inspired by our EMPOWER brochures, these tools support clinician-patient conversations and safer use of meds that increase fall risk: preview.ncoa.org/article/depr...

Some common meds make us more sensitive to heat, and can put us at risk of heat stroke and other heat-related illness 🥵☀️ Learn which meds make our bodies more sensitive to heat & how to stay cool on hot summer days: www.deprescribingnetwork.ca/blog/medicat... Share to keep your network informed!

Maude Plourde, pharmacist at the CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale, presented on medications & cognition to staff at Quebec City Geriatric Expertise Centre, covering the impact of anticholinergic meds on cognition & tools to help communicate this to older adults. Thank you Maude for your work! 🧠💊

Shoutout to member Émilie Bortolussi-Courval & her med student team at @usherbrooke.bsky.social for leading an interprofessional workshop for medicine, pharmacy, nursing and physios on deprescribing - preparing future health professionals to tackle polypharmacy together! 🙌

📸 Read our event summary on the International Conference on Deprescribing 2026, an event that brought together 260+ participants to connect, share and learn from one another. 🔗 www.deprescribingnetwork.ca/icod2026-sum...

💊 The American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology created a task force of experts in clinical psychopharmacology to develop the 1st international recommendations for deRXing stimulants in adults with ADHD, filling a significant gap in scientific literature on the topic: tinyurl.com/579basy6

🗞️ Hot off the press! Check out our newsletter for the month of June, featuring highlights from the International Conference on Deprescribing 2026, our new resource for community orgs, statin deprescribing guidelines by @deprescribing.bsky.social & a call for manuscripts: mailchi.mp/caden-recad/...

📣 NEW resource for community organizations! Our new handout "Help make medication use safer in your community!" was co-created with our Public Awareness Committee to help community organizations partner with our network to promote safer medication use👇 www.deprescribingnetwork.ca/useful-resou...

📸 Snapshot of Dylan Bonnan, pharmacist with a PhD in pharmacoepidemiology, presenting on med. safety to the Fédération des aînés et retraités francophones de l'Ontario (FARFO) on behalf of CADeN! Thank you for sharing your expertise and helping us empower Francophone linguistic minority communities!

In honour of our 10th anniversary, 10 CADeN members (+1 staff member) were recognized for their exceptional contributions at the International Conference on Deprescribing 2026. Thank you for your leadership and commitment to medication appropriateness and deprescribing! 👏

💡 A new study evaluated the feasibility and impact of a digital cognitive behavioural therapy (eCBT) program for adults 65+ with insomnia and anxiety: eCBT significantly reduced insomnia & anxiety symptoms, offering a promising, more accessible alternative to in-person CBT. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3c8r2r3u

How can we improve appropriate medication use in Canada? At #ChoosingWisely2026, Jonathan Lam led an important session with Dr. Amol Verma, Dr. Lisa McCarthy, and Amber Ruben on prescribing priorities, equity, Indigenous partnership, and collaborative approaches to medication safety. 💊

📸 Network research coordinator Aylin Mansimova presenting a qual study in @choosingwiselyca.bsky.social's session "Abstracts on Choosing Wisely Education"! This research identified key factors that enable/hinder the integration of deprescribing education in undergrad. nursing, pharm & med programs.

We’re at the #ChoosingWisely2026 National Meeting! Pick up resources for clinicians & public members at our booth, including our educational brochures on potentially inappropriate meds & deprescribing algorithms by @deprescribing.bsky.social! Come learn about our projects & how to get involved! 👋

Deprescribing psychotropics: a new meta-analysis finds a 57% reduction in fall risk among older adults following deprescribing interventions in hospital settings. In community, the quality of clinical support and monitoring were key determinants of effective fall reduction. 🔗 tinyurl.com/y54csdt