question” During the last month she has been having “dizzy spells” and has fallen twice. As you review her medication she tells you that she started this blood pressure pill 4 weeks ago.

has moved to an assisted living facility. She lived at home alone for the past 4 years since her husband’s death. She enters this facility reluctantly but states “I know my daughter can’t take care of me right now—her husband is ill and she has her hands full.” Mrs. J. is in good health and takes one medication “for her blood pressure.” During the last month she has been having “dizzy spells” and has fallen twice. As you review her medication she tells you that she started this blood pressure pill 4 weeks ago. She “hates running to the bathroom” so much. When you ask about her dizziness she says “I’m fine as long as I stay in bed or in my chair but when I stand up I feel like I’m going to fall over! I get so light-headed.”