How do you approach anxiety management for patients who have been on long-term (years or more) daily benzodiazepines?

How do you approach this in patients who are approaching or are over 65 given the contraindications of benzodiazepine use in geriatric populations? What do you do if patients are resistant to tapering?

Answer from: at Academic Institution

For patients that I have been seeing for several years, and who have been taking a benzodiazepine for several years, every 1-2 years I inquire as to their thoughts about their medication. After they (almost always) say they want to continue, when they get up in age I advise them of the risks of cont...

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