Recently, with the increase of elderly population we take a growing interest in their health and quality of life. By aging, there are reduced to physical and physiological function of the major organ systems. Therefore they usually have chronic and multiple disease. Because of aboves, we have been concerned to geriatric disease and patient consultation for rational pharmacotherapy and this study was designed to get better effective medication guide to geriatric patients. We have questioned object of outpatient of over 60 years old in St. Mary´s Hospital.
Total 324 patients were answered, and the result are followings:
1) Age distribution of all the patients -60´s, 70´s, 80´s are each 68%, 27%, 5%.
2) 51% of them were suffering from cardiovascular disease and they usually have got medical care over for 6 years.
3) Only 85 patients of them have a prior experience of medication consultation.
4) The time of that patients forgot to take the medicine came out in order of before meals, between meals, after lunch, after dinner and most people have taken the missed dose as soon as they remembered it.
5. Causes of noncompliance are incidence of adverse reactions, complexity of the usage, and the delay of expected effects.
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