Description

• Title:
  Medication use in the elderly – the need for health education
• Creator:
  McFarlane, Oliwia;
  Kędziora-Kornatowska, Kornelia
• Description:
  Worldwide tendency of a rising life expectancy among populations, resulting in an increase of the retired in the demographic structure, makes the senior health education an extremely important issue. Insufficient preparation to prevent and cope with multiple health threats associated with aging indicates an urgent need to increase seniors’ knowledge and skills in the area of health. The paper aims at depicting geriatric pharmacotherapy that entails medication abuse and dependency among the elderly, both resulting in serious problems of medical, psychological, and sociological nature. Educating on both negative and positive aspects of aging, as well as the pharmaceutical use are essential considering the lack of proper health care policy for the elderly.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Rocznik Andragogiczny
• Date:
  2018.04.15
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  AY; Vol. 24 (2017); 213-222;
  Rocznik Andragogiczny; Tom 24 (2017); 213-222;
  2391-7571;
  1429-186X
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/RA/article/view/RA.2017.015/14664
• Subject:
  aging;
  health education;
  medication use;
  addiction;
  starzenie się;
  edukacja zdrowotna;
  przyjmowanie leków;
  uzależnienie
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/RA/article/view/RA.2017.015
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text