Plano de intervenção sobre o uso inadequado de medicamentos pela população idosa na Equipe I em Teixeiras-MG

Abstract

The aging process is dynamic and variable, therefore, prevents establishing parameters. The age structure of the population has changed significantly in recent decades and brought epidemiological changes, such as replacing the profile of the causes of deaths: who in the past were due to infectious and parasitic diseases (acute disease) for circulatory diseases (chronic diseases degenerative). This phenomenon resulted in increased use of health services and presented a pattern that provided a significant increase in drug use among the elderly. In developed countries, older women, older, widowed and with lower socioeconomic status consume more medication and wrong way most of the time. This work aims to develop a Plan of Intervention (PI) to reduce the high number of elderly users who misuse medications, increase the bond and improve the care of the community and try to change the reality of the enrolled population Basic Unit Health named Team 1 regarding the use of medicines. In building this PI scientific papers available were used in the database as: literature narrative type in order to find specific theoretical frameworks to support the development of an action plan as part of the proposed PI. The PI comprised of the following steps: defining the problem, prioritization of the problem, prioritized description of the problem, explanation of the problem, selection of critical nodes, drawing operations, identification of resources, feasibility analysis of the contingency plan, development of the operating plan and management plan.