Journal article
Medication management, antidepressant drugs, and the elderly: An overview.
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing, Vol.10(30-36), pp.30-36
03/01/1992
DOI: 10.3928/0279-3695-19921001-09
PMID: 1404008
Abstract
1. Several factors may affect an elderly client's use of medications: polypharmacy, potentially leading to interactions; over-the-counter drugs taken without a physician's knowledge; noncompliance or poor compliance with medication regimens; and ageist beliefs. 2. Psychiatric nurses must be aware that the signs and symptoms they observe may be the result of normal physical or biological aging, psychosocial changes, disease-related changes, medication side effects, or a drug interaction. 3. Nurses must ask two questions when psychotropic drugs are used with elderly clients: What will be the onset, duration, magnitude, and characteristic action of a specific drug in an individual; and What are the characteristics of an "ideal" medication?
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Medication management, antidepressant drugs, and the elderly: An overview.
- Creators
- Marianne Smith - University of IowaKathleen C. Buckwalter - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of Psychosocial Nursing, Vol.10(30-36), pp.30-36
- DOI
- 10.3928/0279-3695-19921001-09
- PMID
- 1404008
- NLM abbreviation
- J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv
- ISSN
- 0279-3695
- eISSN
- 1938-2413
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/1992
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9983557484902771
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