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As time goes by
— issues for older people with their medication use | | Author(s) | Sandra Kippen, Mary Fraser, Julie Ellis |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 24.2, June 2005 |
| Publisher | Blackwell Publishing, June 2005 |
| Pages | pp 103-107 |
| Source | http://www.cota.org.au / http://www.blackwellpublishingasia.com |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Usage [services] ; Quality of life ; Qualitative Studies ; Australia. |
| Annotation | The impact of older people's medication use was explored in a convenience sample of self-selecting participants aged 60+ (11 men and 13 women) from five community-based groups. Four focus groups were held in a large regional city and one in a small rural town. Many participants reported a sense of their own life being controlled by when and how they needed to use medication. They experienced lifestyle impacts and struggled to deal with sometime debilitating side-effects. Formerly routine activities such as ease of mobility and travel had become challenges to their autonomy and independence. Information given by general practitioners (GPs), pharmacists and pamphlets accompanying medication was helpful, but, nevertheless, often incomplete. Packaging was reported to be often not "user friendly", and prescribing was sometimes done in a way that could cause waste and confusion. Thus, embarking on medication regimens can impact significantly on lifestyles, and erect barriers to a positive experience of ageing through exacerbating loss of control in life situations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050905203 A |
| Classmark | LLD: QLD: F:59: 3DP: 7YA |
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