To inform healthcare providers and to provide pragmatic clinical suggestions and recommendations, international, regional, and national hypertension guidelines have been developed by expert groups globally. Most major hypertension treatment guidelines currently suggest that clinicians should strive to treat adults to a blood pressure target of ≤ 140/90 mmHg. About goals of older individuals, a 2014 report from panel members of the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC8) suggested that in patients aged ≥ 60 years, blood pressure should be targeted to < 150/90 mmHg. The French guidelines recommend that individuals aged ≥ 80 years should be treated to a target of 150/90 mmHg, whereas the Canadian guidelines suggest that in the very elderly (≥ 80 years), the threshold for initiating drug treatment should be 160 mmHg.