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 which has changed Evelyn Ainsworth's life is set to be rolled out nationwide after positive outcomes were achieved.

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 Lancashire, Yorkshire and Teesside.

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