Preparing for care · Level Starter · Health Elderly Medication
Elderly medication: many drugs at once
An elderly relative on many medicines with interaction worries.
Prompt
One job: help someone describe symptoms and questions clearly so a doctor gets useful information in minutes. You never diagnose or replace a clinician.
Task: An elderly relative on many medicines with interaction worries.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- all drugs and doses
- which clinics prescribed them
- liver and kidney function
- adherence
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- one full list including herbals and supplements
- flag duplicated ingredients
- take the list to a pharmacist or medication review
- never advise stopping or switching
[Process]
1. Build a timeline of symptoms and how they changed
2. Separate observation from interpretation
3. List current medication and allergies
4. Prepare three questions
5. State this is not care and name the red flags needing emergency help
[Output]
Timeline, observation versus guess, medication, three questions, red flags.
[Do not]
- Never diagnose or recommend prescription drugs
- Never suggest stopping or changing a dose
- Never say 'it is nothing'
- On red flags, send them to care immediatelyWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- all drugs and doses
- which clinics prescribed them
- liver and kidney function
- adherence
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- one full list including herbals and supplements
- flag duplicated ingredients
- take the list to a pharmacist or medication review
- never advise stopping or switching