Proposta de monitoramento do idoso que está fazendo uso inadequado de medicação

Abstract

Numerous studies have shown a significant increase of the elderly in recent years, population aging is an inexorable trend and is becoming a fast and intense. With increased life expectancy, the elderly, may have many chronic illnesses that require continuous pharmacological treatment with an increasingly high number and diverse range of drugs and they also consume more health services becoming more frequent hospitalizations and longer. Faced with this situation arises the need to think a strategy to improve the service organization that enables the monitoring of medication use in a systematic manner the elderly who make use of some medications in an attempt to guide the correct way to take the medication they are prescribed. Overall this is one of the biggest challenges faced by health professionals working in primary care, because non-adherence to medication also occurs in adults with diabetes and hypertension. This work aims to conduct a literature review on the inappropriate use of medication by elderly users of the Family Health Strategy. To develop the study, it was decided to make a narrative review of the literature was carried out through survey of articles published in the database Scielo and Lilacs Books and also the Ministry of Health and State Health Secretariat of Minas Gerais. . The results showed that the main factors to the adherence to the treatment of the elderly are older age, sex, alcohol consumption, smoking, adjustment difficulties (dose, time, quantity), presence of undesirable side effects, physical disability, culture and beliefs of the population, failure in the distribution of medication by the health service, among others.