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Pills and perils
— repeat prescribing for older patients | | Author(s) | David Andrewes, Diane Andrewes, Jackie Charles |
| Corporate Author | Eastleigh Southern Parishes Older People's Forum (ESPOPF) |
| Publisher | Eastleigh Southern Parishes Older People's Forum (ESPOPF), Old Bursledon, Southampton, 2008 |
| Pages | 33 pp |
| Source | Diane Andrewes, Orchard Hill, Salterns Lane, Old Bursledon, Southampton SO31 8DH. email: diane.andrewes@virgin.net Website: www.espopf.org.uk |
| Keywords | Drugs ; General practice ; Social surveys ; Eastleigh. |
| Annotation | Eastleigh Southern Parishes Older People's Forum (ESPOPF) in Hampshire has surveyed repeat prescribing for the over 60s in six villages in semi-rural Hampshire. This is ESPROF's fourth piece of research by older people into problems experienced by older people. The study's aim is to examine the problems arising out of repeat prescribing, and to make recommendations to enhance the well-being of older people who are dependent on prescribed drugs for their continuing quality of life. This report includes the questionnaire used, and notes the study's limitations. It presents findings on: the profile of respondents; statistics of repeat prescribing; GPs' explanations of medications; ordering, collection and delivery, identification and packaging of medication; patients' forgetfulness; adverse side-effects; monitoring of medication; and non-compliance. Whereas health professionals research why patients won't and don't take their tablets, this research sets out to discover why older patients don't and can't. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080930001 B |
| Classmark | LLD: L5: 3F: 8HAE |
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