As people age, the balance of benefit and harm shifts for many common drugs, and the AGS Beers Criteria are the standard reference for which medications are potentially inappropriate in adults aged 65 and over. This checker matches a drug name against a curated subset of the 2023 criteria and explains the concern.
How it works
The tool normalises your entry and matches it, case-insensitively, against canonical generic names and common brand aliases in the reference list. A match returns the risk rating — avoid or use with caution — and the evidence-based reason, for example anticholinergic burden, fall risk, hypoglycaemia, or bleeding. The matching is substring-aware so partial entries and brand names still resolve.
Notes and limits
This is a curated subset of the 2023 AGS Beers Criteria covering the most frequently encountered entries, not the complete list, so a no-match result does not prove a drug is safe. Beers recommendations are guidance, not absolute prohibitions: a flagged medication may still be the right choice for an individual after weighing alternatives and patient preferences. Use this tool alongside a full medication review and the complete published criteria, never as a substitute for clinical judgement.