About 50 % of elderly patients aged over 65 discontinue with their medications and majority of them discontinue with medication within first 3 months. Many patients want to get more data about their drugs, however many healt care professionals (clinicians, pharmacists, nurses) often do not feel this problem. According to the data and well-designed trials a cooperation with clinical pharmacists at the discharge can be very beneficial for the patients, however because of a lack of sense for medical errors at the discharge many hospitals do not recognize this as a real problem, although drug discontinuation immediate after discharge can lead to serious harms. What is a situation in your country at the discharges from the hospitals?
I provide discharge counseling to all patients at my 88 bed acute and residential psychiatric children's hospital. Most moderate-large sized hospitals in my region who staff clinical pharmacists also perform this service. Hospitals without adequate pharmacist coverage cannot consistently provide this important service.
It depends on personal characteristics of health personal, but in majority of cases it is lack of information
On a personal level not enough consultation is given to older people many of whom struggle with the medications. The get confused when. Medications are adjusted or changed. Often the reviewing of medicine is very lax with the attitude towards older people being very ageist and negative ie. Theirs not much we can do or what do you expect at your age. Reviewing of drugs regimes is practically non existant and if a client mentions a medicine seem to not be working no one listens. Hospitals are pretty good with regard to medication advice it's the primary care centres that are lacking in the area of client.patient and doctor relationship. Perhaps due to time given per clidng and a gradually increasing of the ageing population putting primary care under strain.
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