Intervenção sobre a adesão medicamentosa entre pacientes idosos no centro de saúde em Santana do Riacho/MG

Abstract

The medication adherence is a major factor in achieving success in treatment, especially chronic diseases. The population has changed significantly in recent decades bringing epidemiological changes, such as replacing the profile of causes of death: in the past were by infectious and parasitic diseases for chronic diseases. The effect of this phenomenon is the increased use of health services, as well as provided a significant increase in the use of medications by the elderly. In developed countries, female seniors, older, widowed and with lower socioeconomic status consume drugs often wrongly. This study aimed to develop a proposal for intervention to reduce the high number of patients with chronic diseases elderly users who misuse drugs and so the leaves reducing membership. This work has been described to increase communication between the team and the user, enabling the team to handle the problem and thus foster care transforming the reality of ascribed elderly to Health Santana do Riacho Center, increasing medication adherence . In the construction of this proposal, a narrative type literature review was performed with the use of scientific papers available in a database to support the development of the action plan as part of the proposed intervention. The intervention included the following steps: defining the problem; prioritization of the problem; prioritized description of the problem; explanation of the problem; selection of critical nodes; design of operations; identification of necessary resources; feasibility analysis of the intervention plan; preparation of operating plan and management plan.