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Medicine-taking practices in community-dwelling people aged >=75 years in New Zealand

Author(s) -

June Tordoff,

Michael Bagge,

Andrew Gray,

Angela Campbell,

Pauline Norris

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afq069

Subject(s) - medicine , medical prescription , logistic regression , older people , family medicine , population , scale (ratio) , multivariate analysis , gerontology , demography , environmental health , nursing , geography , cartography , sociology

older people experience more chronic medical conditions than younger people, take more prescription medicines and are more likely to suffer from cognitive or memory problems. Older people are more susceptible to the adverse effects of medicines, which may reduce their quality of life or lead to hospitalisation or death.

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