Investigation Report of Community Pharmaceutical Service Ⅱ

OBJECTIVE To investigate the common sense of medication in the elderly people, and their demand of community pharmacy services, to provide the theory basis for community pharmacy services for senior citizen in community. METHODS Totally, 12 communities were recruited for questionnaire survey. At present study, the people were divided into two groups at the threshold of 60 years old. Finally, the comparative analysis was done referring to the survey results. RESULTS The major health problems in senior citizens in community were chronic diseases like hypertension, diabetes. There were 58.25% elderly people and 42.42% younger ones prefer to purchasing medicine at community health service center. And 79.80% senior citizens accustomed to storing common medicine at home, but only 13.13% of them reserved drugs in a right way according with the instruction. There was a significant difference between the senior citizens group and the junior citizens group in rightly using drugs. The former had much more problems than junior citizens. Elderly group had much greater demands to propaganda about rational use of drugs, guide of choosing the family standing pharmacy and door-to-door pharmacy services in senior citizens group. CONCLUSION The elderly people have much more problems in rightly using drugs. They also urgently demand community pharmacy service. Community pharmacy service for senior citizens is undergoing the initial stage, so there is still a long way to integrate pharmacy service into community health service. To speed up such a process, pharmacists need to enthusiastic on exploring and innovating a right way.