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Asthma in the elderly, but also in other age groups, shows a high incidence in last years. Frequent co-morbidities, especially in cardiovascular pathology, in the elderly, require combined treatment, often it has side effects or contraindication, for other diseases associated. Often remove from treatment the asthma medication or the other an important drug from cardiovascular medication as a precaution or unjustified reasons, produce from exhaustive policy of selling drugs and sometimes unjustified targets in our country. The goal of the present paper is to raise and to define these issues, to demonstrate that we need medication every disease that is separately, considering that the side effects or the existing contraindications, without forgetting the treatment of asthma in the elderly, main target for elderly patients being maintaining a good quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]