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Pharmacist Intervention in Portuguese Older Adult Care

Healthy ageing has become one of the most significant challenges in a society with an increasing life expectancy. Older adults have a greater prevalence of chronic disease, with the need for multiple medications to appropriately control these issues. In addition to their health concerns, ageing indi...

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Autores principales: Rodrigues, Ana Rita, Teixeira-Lemos, Edite, Mascarenhas-Melo, Filipa, Lemos, Luís Pedro, Bell, Victoria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36292280
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101833
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author Rodrigues, Ana Rita
Teixeira-Lemos, Edite
Mascarenhas-Melo, Filipa
Lemos, Luís Pedro
Bell, Victoria
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description Healthy ageing has become one of the most significant challenges in a society with an increasing life expectancy. Older adults have a greater prevalence of chronic disease, with the need for multiple medications to appropriately control these issues. In addition to their health concerns, ageing individuals are prone to loneliness, dependence, and economic issues, which may affect their quality of life. Governments and health professionals worldwide have developed various strategies to promote active and healthy ageing to improve the quality of life of older adults. Pharmacists are highly qualified health professionals, easily accessible to the population, thus playing a pivotal role in medication management. Their proximity to the patient puts them in a unique position to provide education and training to improve therapeutic adherence and identify medication-related problems. This paper aims to address the importance of Portuguese community pharmacists in the medication management of older adults, emphasising their intervention in health promotion, patient education, medication-related problems, deprescription, dose administration aids, and medication review and reconciliation. We also discuss home delivery services and medication management in long-term care facilities.
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spelling pubmed-96023672022-10-27 Pharmacist Intervention in Portuguese Older Adult Care Rodrigues, Ana Rita Teixeira-Lemos, Edite Mascarenhas-Melo, Filipa Lemos, Luís Pedro Bell, Victoria Healthcare (Basel) Review Healthy ageing has become one of the most significant challenges in a society with an increasing life expectancy. Older adults have a greater prevalence of chronic disease, with the need for multiple medications to appropriately control these issues. In addition to their health concerns, ageing individuals are prone to loneliness, dependence, and economic issues, which may affect their quality of life. Governments and health professionals worldwide have developed various strategies to promote active and healthy ageing to improve the quality of life of older adults. Pharmacists are highly qualified health professionals, easily accessible to the population, thus playing a pivotal role in medication management. Their proximity to the patient puts them in a unique position to provide education and training to improve therapeutic adherence and identify medication-related problems. This paper aims to address the importance of Portuguese community pharmacists in the medication management of older adults, emphasising their intervention in health promotion, patient education, medication-related problems, deprescription, dose administration aids, and medication review and reconciliation. We also discuss home delivery services and medication management in long-term care facilities. MDPI 2022-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9602367/ /pubmed/36292280 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101833 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602367/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101833
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