Open AccessMedication management strategies used by older adults with heart failure: A systems-based analysis
Author(s) -
Robin S. Mickelson,
Richard J. Holden
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
european journal of cardiovascular nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1873-1953
pISSN - 1474-5151
DOI - 10.1177/1474515117730704
Subject(s) - medicine , thematic analysis , situational ethics , qualitative research , heart failure , cognition , medication adherence , psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , social science , sociology
Older adults with heart failure use strategies to cope with the constraining barriers impeding medication management. Strategies are behavioral adaptations that allow goal achievement despite these constraining conditions. When strategies do not exist, are ineffective or maladaptive, medication performance and health outcomes are at risk. While constraints to medication adherence are described in literature, strategies used by patients to manage medications are less well-described or understood.