The risks of innapropriate keeping of medications at home by the elderly
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ŞCHIOPU, Tatiana, ADAUJI, Stela, BRUMAREL, Mihail, COROBCEAN, Alexandra. The risks of innapropriate keeping of medications at home by the elderly. In: Direcții de reformare a sistemului farmaceutic din perspectiva cursului european al Republicii Moldova, Ed. Ediția a 2-a, 28 aprilie 2023, Chişinău. Comrat: Universitatea de Stat din Comrat, 2023, Ediția a 2-a, pp. 83-84. ISBN 978-5-88554-205-0.
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Direcții de reformare a sistemului farmaceutic din perspectiva cursului european al Republicii Moldova
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Ediția a 2-a, Chişinău, Moldova, 28 aprilie 2023

The risks of innapropriate keeping of medications at home by the elderly

CZU: 615.2.014.4:616-053.9

Pag. 83-84

Şchiopu Tatiana, Adauji Stela, Brumarel Mihail, Corobcean Alexandra
 
”Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 16 mai 2023


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Introduction. The pharmacist is the health professional who has direct contact with the elderly patient, being the last of the patient's therapeutic path, after the doctors, and who through direct and timely interventions can offer pharmaceutical care at home to the elderly. Home pharmaceutical care is an integrated service provided by a specially trained pharmacist, which should be given in a coherent way according to the needs of the patient and ensures access to medication and medical devices, recovery, family support, etc. Aim of the study: Assessing the medical kits of the elderly to determine potential problems related to the storage and use of medications at home. Material and methods. The study was conducted from September 2022 to January 2023. The cross-sectional design was used for the proposed theme. In this study, 12 medical kits of the elderly were evaluated. Results. 12 medical kits of their elderly were evaluated and the drugs were described depending on the following variables: pharmaco-therapeutic group – in all medical kits, the common pharmaco-therapeutic group is the cardiovascular one, the drugs are kept all together without being separated by therapeutic action, medicinal form, storage conditions; expiration date – in all the kits, 3 (median) expired drugs were detected, most often they were drugs that are used less often or seasonal drugs; the presence of the secondary packaging – all medical kits contained both drugs in the secondary packaging and without it, the drugs used daily (such as antihypertensives) were mostly outside the secondary packaging; the instructions – the instruction is present only for the medicines that were in the secondary packaging of the preparation, respectively, many secondary packaging are thrown away together with the instructions; storage conditions – some were inadequate, medicines are kept in boxes or packages and kept close at hand, such as right on the table or drawers. Conclusions. With aging, the number of medicinal preparations administered by the elderly increases, and a tendency is observed not to respect the storage conditions of these medicines in domestic conditions. We conclude that the implementation of pharmaceutical care at home offered to this category of patients would minimize the risks they are exposed to following the administration of incorrectly stored drugs.

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pharmacist, older adult, drugs, risks, at home