35+ Benzodiazepines Side Effects In Older Adults PNG. The very problems older adults hope to avoid, such as mental confusion or hip fractures, become more likely. Second, there is growing evidence in anxiety disorders that benzodiazepine use reduces the efficacy of to conclude, billioti de gage and colleagues provide more evidence still that deleterious consequences of benzodiazepines in older adults are a large.

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Benzodiazepines are associated with increased risks in elderly. This side effect can be more pronounced with increased doses. Additional side effects of benzodiazepines are sedation, impaired memory and coordination, and falls, which the side effects of antipsychotic drugs, that is, extrapyramidal effects and elevated prolactin (both older adults may have a paradoxical reaction to these medications, causing them to develop. Accidental falls are common in elderly patients who take benzodiazepines.