| Title |
A cornerstone of healthy aging: do we need to rethink the concept of adherence in the elderly?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Patient preference and adherence, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.2147/ppa.s164686 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Anna Giardini, Marina Maffoni, Przemyslaw Kardas, Elisio Costa |
| Abstract |
Worldwide, the population is aging and this trend will increase in the future due to medical, technological and scientific advancements. To take care of the elderly is highly demanding and challenging for the health care system due to their frequent condition of chronicity, multimorbidity and the consequent complex management of polypharmacy. Nonadherence to medications and to medical plans is a well-recognized public health problem and a very urgent issue in this population. For this reason, some considerations to identify a new shared approach to integrated care of older people are described. The concept of adherence should be considered as a complex and continuous process where family, caregivers and patients' beliefs come into play. Moreover, a new culture of adherence should contemplate the complexity of multimorbidity, as well as the necessity to renegotiate the medication regimen on the basis of each patient's needs. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 48 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 23% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 13% |
| Researcher | 4 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 10% |
| Unknown | 12 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 27% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 19% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 6% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 2 | 4% |
| Linguistics | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 18 | 38% |
Attention Score in Context
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#50
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