Elderly and Their Medicines, 1984

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>To examine the medicine-taking habits of a representative sample of elderly people from the viewpoint of these elderly people and of the main prescribers of these medicines, their general practitioners<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>The elderly people's health, their views and experiences of their general practitioners and the prescribed or non-prescribed medicines they take or use; their general views about medicine-taking and pharmacists' assessments of the medicines that they do take; the views and experiences of general practitioners on prescribing for the elderly and their knowledge of particular patients; elderly people's contacts with hospitals and their helpers and supporters; medicines that elderly people hoard.<br>
Measurement Scales<br>
Nottingham Health Profile; Isaacs and Walkey's Mental Impairment Measurement