Polypharmacy is common among the elderly patient with Diabetes Mellitus (DM).It can increases the risk of drug side effects, drug-drug interaction, and drug-disease interaction, and inappropriate prescribing. This researchaims to describe the potential inappropriate use of the drug to theelderly patients with Type II Diabetes Mellitus at Private Hospital of Makassar Indonesia. From Januari to December of 2013 all elderly inpatient with Type II DM were randomly sampled for study. This research uses a descriptive study using the medical records of the patients with the retrospective data collection. The selection of this research subjects by the purposive sampling. The inappropriate use of the drug was evaluated by Start-Stopp criteria. The results of the research by using the inappropriate of drugs based on the Stopp Criteria are 30% with the use of antidiabetic drugs is glibenclamide (10.5%).
