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 **[[https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/44/2/213/2812233|Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions (STOPP) and Screening Tools to Alert Doctors to Right Treatment (START)]]** criteria is a medication review tool designed to identify medications where the risks outweigh the benefits in the elderly.
 ===== Pain in the Elderly =====
-**Pain** increases in incidence and prevalence after age 60 because of the accumulative burden of such aging associated illnesses such as osteoarthritis, compression fractures, diabetic neuropathy and cancer. It is under reported by the elderly, who may not tell their doctors because they fear being labeled as bothersome, hypochondriacal, or becoming addicted. The most common causes of pain is osteoarthritis (close to 50%).
+**Pain** increases in incidence and prevalence after age 60. This is because of the accumulative burden of aging-associated illnesses such as osteoarthritis, compression fractures, diabetic neuropathy, and cancer. It is underreported by the elderly. The most common causes of pain is osteoarthritis (close to 50%).
 ===== Osteoporosis =====