caa a22 4500 386314705 CHVBK 20180307111602.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1988 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0714980800007893 doi S0714980800007893 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0714980800007893 Tuominen Jean D. University of British Columbia Prescription Drugs and the Elderly in B.C [Elektronische Daten] [Jean D. Tuominen] Persons aged 65 and older comprise about 9-12% of the population of industrialized countries but consume 25-30% of prescribed drugs. This high consumption may be due to an increase in disease and chronic illness and/or the result of over prescription. The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of prescription drugs by the population of B.C. aged 65 and older. Using B.C. Pharmacare data for 1984, the cost and number of prescriptions were analysed, comparing consumption by the mobile elderly with that of the elderly in nursing homes. Both populations were found to receive a high number of prescriptions per person, particularly in the Central Nervous System therapeutic class. The results indicate the need for further study into the prescription of drugs for both elderly groups, but particularly those in nursing homes. Copyright © Canadian Association on Gerontology 1988 prescription drugs nationallicence medication nationallicence adverse reactions nationallicence British Columbia nationallicence health nationallicence compliance nationallicence Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement Cambridge University Press 7/3(1988), 174-182 0714-9808 7:3<174 1988 7 CJG https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980800007893 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0714980800007893 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tuominen Jean D. University of British Columbia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement Cambridge University Press 7/3(1988), 174-182 0714-9808 7:3<174 1988 7 CJG CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge