Title: The research progress of the elderly medication problem and its influencing factor
Abstract: The elderly people are the high risk population with chronic disease. There is a higher safety hazard of medication. It is easy to appear the drugs side effect, drugs interaction, drug-induced diseases and drug-related problems. This article briefly introduces the problems of medication in the elderly, and retrospectively analyzes the relevant factors which affect the elderly safe medication and focuses the prevention of the improper use of drugs in the elderly and the effective measures for the improvement of the medication compliance in patients so as to assist and guide the elderly to have correct use of drugs and maximally enhance the drug efficacy, reduce the drug adverse reactions and improve the life quality of the elderly people.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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