Geriatric patients: compliance issues and ways of its optimization

ABSTRACT

The aim of the study is to increase the effectiveness of diseases treatment in elderly patients. The work is based on the study of the nature and the role of compliance disorders, optimizing the effectiveness with the use of therapeutic complex of pharmacotherapy associated with psychotherapeutic component. As a result of the analysis of morbidity in elderly age and the nature of compliance in elderly patients, an optimal therapeutic complex was proposed, which consists of rational pharmacological load and psychotherapeutic intervention, aimed at informing a patient about the disease, methods of its treatment, as well as at creating an effective therapeutic alliance which provides proper medical care and prevents self-treatment in such patients.