Compliance and medication knowledge among elderly Japanese home-care recipients

Abstract

In this study, compliance among elderly Japanese home-care recipients was found to be associated with receiving pharmacist counseling, frequency of meals, and age.

Frail elderly patients in primary care—their medication knowledge and beliefs about prescribed medicines

“…They are also more vulnerable as a consequence of diminished plasticity due to their advanced age. According to a study by Okuno et al, 25% of the elderly aged 80 years and over do not take their medicines as prescribed [1]. Age is the strongest predictor of a higher number of medicines.…”

“…Most scientists think that more medicines lead to poorer compliance [2][3][4]. However there are studies that have contradicted this connection [1,5] or even found the opposite [6].…”

“…Patients', and especially older patients', knowledge about their medicines is generally poor [1,3,4,[6][7][8]. A Danish study on 75 year old people at home showed that only 60% knew the indication for their treatment and as few as 6% could report potential risks, side effects, or interactions [3].…”

“…Since compliance is significantly related to patients' knowledge of and attitudes towards medication [1,3,5,6,[9][10][11], it is necessary to receive more insight into this aspect. Hence, the aim of the present study was to describe these variables among fragile elderly patients with multiple illnesses.…”

Revisão dos estudos de intervenção do farmacêutico no uso de medicamentos por pacientes idosos

“…A maioria dos idosos utiliza mais de um medicamento periodicamente e quando hospitalizados recebem entre oito a quinze, representando um consumo de aproximadamente 30 a 35% de todos os medicamentos prescritos nos Estados Unidos (Baum et al, 1984;Ostrom et al, 1985;Piraino, 1995;Salom & Davis, 1995). No Japão, em 1995, a população com 65 anos ou mais era de 14,5%, com consumo de 30,6% de todos os medicamentos prescritos (Okuno et al, 1999). Já na Inglaterra, em 1985, os idosos receberam 39% de todas as prescrições de medicamentos (Cartwright & Smith, 1988).…”