Treating hypertension is a day to day duty of any
physician. But when it comes to treat hypertension in
elderly patients, especially above the age of 60,
achieving the target BP becomes difficult. Because of
multiple co-morbidities and use of concomitant different
kind of medications, very often, a single antihypertensive
agent often fails to achieve the goal. Joint
National Committee (JNC) publishes the guideline for
hypertension management for several years and the
latest one in JNC 8. In that also, the difficulty of treating
hypertension in elderly patients have been mentioned.