[Organization of drug assistance for the elderly].

ABSTRACT

The basic directions of optimization of drug help to senior citizens from the standpoint of rational use of medicines, taking into account the features of pharmacotherapy in these patients due to age-physiological processes in the body, polymorbidity, reduction of adaptation to the toxic effects of drugs, and the growing incidence of adverse side effects of drugs. The necessity to take into account these characteristics in the clinical trials of drugs, development of guidelines for their use, development standards or medical care, prescription drugs and establish a regime of receiving from therapists and professional counseling pharmacists by elderly patients when they contact the pharmacy organization is shown. The basic directions of organizational and pharmaceutical approaches for the rational use of drugs are discussed, the results of the analysis of information in the instructions for use are shown.