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Prescription drug use among the elderly living at home
— pharmacoepidemiological studies in a Swedish municipality | | Author(s) | Tove Gustafsson |
| Corporate Author | Department of Pharmacy, Biomedical Centre, Uppsala University |
| Publisher | Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala, 1996 |
| Pages | 53 pp (Comprehensive summaries of Uppsala dissertations .. Pharmacy 149) |
| Source | AW International AB, PO Box 4627, Karlbergsvägen 77-81, S-116 91 Stockholm, Sweden. |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Living in the community ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | This study analysed prescription drug use among older people living at home in Tierp, a Swedish municipality. In particular, the extent of drug use, drug-related problems and reasons for drug use were analysed. Data on prescription drug use from a computerised research registry were used, as well as information from an interview study with older people in 1986. Information on health care utilisation was also used. Findings revealed that use of prescription drugs was common among older people, with more frequent use among women than men, however, among people aged 85 years and over the difference was smaller. Long term use of digoxin was common, although the risk of hospitalisation due to intoxication from the drug was low. Anti-hypertensive drugs were used by a large proportion of older people. Mental health and physician visits were associated with the use of psychotropic drugs, and an indirect relationship was found between the use of such drugs and loneliness and chronic disease. Different factors were associated with mortality among men and women: self-rated health and heart problems in men, and diabetes, age and marital status among women. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980210205 B |
| Classmark | LLD: K4: 76P |
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