Medicines for chronic diseases in seniors
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Format: | artículo original |
Status: | Versión publicada |
Data wydania: | 2011 |
Opis: | Costa Rica ́s process of population aging is a consequences of a low fertility and high life expectancy which outlines new challenges in the attention for chronic diseases. A sample of elderly people is analyzed at the urban periphery with three objectives: to study the validity of the individual report of medication for chronic illnesses (diabetes, hypertension and cardiac disease) in relation to an objective revision of the first-aid kit of the participants, to determine the effect of sociodemographic factors in the probability of a appropriate medication regimen and to elucidate the multidimensional process of medication holding. A weak relationship is evidenced between the report of medication and the first-aid kit revision, some factors influence positively the possibility of having appropriate medication like literacy, company and an increase Yesavage ́s scale score; others influence it negatively as alcoholism and co morbidity. There was evidence for just one dimension in the process to medications according to the variables used in this sample. |
Kraj: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
Instytucja: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
Język: | Español |
OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/8870 |
Dostęp online: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/gerontologia/article/view/8870 |
Słowo kluczowe: | adulto mayor medicamentos reporte individual revisión botiquín elderly medicament individual report first-aid kit revision |