Assistência Farmacêutica como Estratégia para o Uso Racional de Medicamentos em Idosos

Marcieni Ataide de Andrade; Marcos Valério Santos da Silva; Osvaldo de Freitas

doi:10.5433/1679-0367.2004v25n1p55

Farmaceutical Assistance as a Strategy for the Rational Use of Medicine by the Elderly

Authors

Marcieni Ataide de Andrade Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
Marcos Valério Santos da Silva Universidade Norte do Paraná
Osvaldo de Freitas Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0367.2004v25n1p55

Keywords:

Pharmaceutical assistance, Health of the elderly, Rational use of medicine.

Abstract

The increase of the elderly population in Brazil follows a trend that has already occurred in developed countries, issuing considerable challenges to the health services and professionals due to the great number of pathologies with various symptomathologies, prevalence of age-degenerative chronic diseases that frequently depend on prolonged or continuing drug therapies, transforming these individuals into great medicine consumers, being possibly the most medicated age group in society. Thus, the pharmaceutical assistance as a component of the care strategies that aim at promoting the rational use of medicine and therapeutic education, may provide a better relationship between health professionals and patients, enabling the elderly to deal with possible side effects and information on the drugs, contributing for the adhesion to the treatment which, consequently, becomes more efficient.

Author Biographies

Marcieni Ataide de Andrade, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Profª Dra. do Curso de Farmácia da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.

Marcos Valério Santos da Silva, Universidade Norte do Paraná

Prof. Dr. do Curso de Pós-graduação da Universidade Norte do Paraná.

Osvaldo de Freitas, Universidade de São Paulo

Prof. Dr. Associado do Curso de Farmácia da Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade São Paulo.

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2004-07-15

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Andrade MA de, Silva MVS da, Freitas O de. Farmaceutical Assistance as a Strategy for the Rational Use of Medicine by the Elderly. Semin. Cienc. Biol. Saude [Internet]. 2004 Jul. 15 [cited 2024 Jul. 27];25(1):55-64. Available from: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/seminabio/article/view/3626

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Vol. 25 No. 1 (2004)

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