ERIC ED364517: Medicines and You: A Guide for Older Adults = Las medicinas y usted: Guia para las personas mayores.

53 Pages·1992·1.1 MB·English

by  ERIC

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ED 364 517
Las
Medicines and You: A Guide for Older Adults
TITLE
medicines y usted: Guia para las personas mayores.
National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human
INSTITUTION
Services Organizations.
PUB DATE
92
55p.; Funding provided by the Council on Family
NOTE
Health.
AVAILABLE FROM COSMO Publications, 1501 Sixteenth Street, N.W.,
Washington, DC 20036.
General (050) -- Multilingual/Bilingual
PUB TYPE
Guides
Materials (171)
English; Spanish
LANGUAGE
MF01/PC03 Plus Postage.
EDRS PRICE
Consumer Education; *Drug Use; *Geriatrics; *Health
EeSCRIPTORS
Promotion; Interaction; Older Adults; *Patient
Education; Pharmacists; *Physician Patient
Relationship
IDENTIFIERS
*Medications
ABSTRACT
Most people over 65 take many prescription and
nonprescription medicines. Because the body is changing and more
medicines are taken, many older adults experience harmful reactions
to the medicines they take. This booklet, written in both English and
Spanish (on facing pages), was developed to help older adults learn
associated with taking
more about medicines, recognize problems
medicines, and learn to work with health professionals to ensure that
medicines are working properly. Several topics are covered under the
following headings: (1) "Medicines and Their Effects" (discusses
medicines and their interactions, medicine-medicine interaction,
medicine-food interaction, medicine-alcohol inLeraction, and side
effects); (2) "When You See Your Health Professional" (describes what
doctors, pharmacists, and nurses must know about a patient, such as
medical history, eating habits, or any problems associated with
swallowing tablets, following medicine schedules, or telling
medicines apart); (3) "Ask Your Health Professional" (suggests
appropriate questions to ask pertaining to when and how to take
medicines); (4) "Tips for the Consumer" (discusses prescription and
over-the-counter medicines, how to save money, and how pharmacists
You" provides a detachable summary
can help); and (5) "Take Me with
list of helpful tips and a blank chart for keeping track of
medicines. (LL)
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Medicines and You
A Guide for Older Adults
Las medicinas y usted
Guia para las personas mayores
COSSMHOThe National Coalition of
Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations (Coalición
Nacional de Organizaciones Hispanas de la Salud y Servicios Humanos)
Council on Family HealthA public service by the manufacturers
of medicines (ConsLlo de Salud FamiliarUn setvicio
publico de los fabricantes de medicinas)
Copyright © 1992
Health and Human Services
by the National Coalition of Hispanic
Organizations (COSSMHO)
Washington, D.C.
Printed in the United States of America
publication may be reproduced in
All rights reserved. No part of this
photo, recording, or by any information retrieval
any form, including
specific permission of the copyright holder.
system, without the
Health and Human
Produced by the National Coalition of Hispanic
Washington, D.C., with funding
Services Organizations (COSSMHO),
public service by the manufac-
from the Council on Family Healtha
The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily
turers of medicines.
funding source or the COSSMHO
reflect the policy or position of the
Board of Directors and membership.
order copies of this booklet, contact:
For further information or to
Street, NW; Washington, D.C.
COSSMHO Publications; 1501 Sixteenth
20036; [phone].
Table of Contents
Contenido
5
Table of Contents
2
You and Your Medicines
4
Medicines and Their Effects
12
When You See Your Health Professional
12
Tell Your Health Professional
18
Ask Your Health Professional
22
Put Everything in Writing
26
Tips for the Consumer
26
Your Prescription Medicines
32
Your Over-the-Counter Medicines
36
How to Save Money on Your Medicines
38
How Your Pharmacist Can Help
41
Take Me With You
41
Helpful Tips
45
Medicine Chart
Contenido
3
Usted y sus medicinas
5
Las medicinas y sus efectos
13
Cuando yea a su profesional de la salud
13
Mencióneselo a su profesional de la salud
19
Pregfinteselo a su profesional de la salud
23
Tenga todo anotado
27
Consejos para el conSumidor
27
Sus medicinas recetadas
33
Sus medicinas no recetadas
37
COmo ahorrar dinero en sus medicinas
39
Cómo puede ayudarlo su farmacéutico
43
Lléveme con usted
43
Consejitos Utiles
45
Tab la de medicinas

Medicines
You and Your
taking more medicines now than
If you are over 65 and you are
alone. Most people over 65 take many pre-
ever before, you are not
medicines.
scription and nonprescription
harmful reactions to
Unfortunately, many older adults experience
happens not only because more medi-
the medicines they take. This
because the body is changing. For these two
cines are taken, but also
and bodily changesmedicines may have
reasonsmore medicines
and that can sometimes be harmful.
effects that are not those desired,
by COSSMHO and the Council
This booklet has been developed
help you:
on Family Health to
medicines;
learn what you should know about your
with taking medicines;
recognize problems you may have
(your doctor or doc-
work with your health professional
etc.) to ensure that your
tors, your pharmacist, your nurse,
medicines are working for you.
Usted y sus medicinas
Si tiene más de 65 atios y est.4 tomando nags medicinas ahora
de las personas de más de
que nunca, usted no está solo. La mayoria
65 atios toman muchas medicinas recetadas y no recetadas.
A muchas personas mayores, lamentablemente, las medicinas
solo porque toman
que toman pueden hacerles datio. Esto ocurre no
más medicinas, sino también porque su cuerpo esta cambiando. Por
estas dos razones: porque se toman Inas medicinas y porque el cuerpo
está cambiando, las medicinas pueden tener efectos que no son los
esperados y hasta pueden hacer mal.
COSSMHO y el Consejo de Salud Familiar han preparado este
folleto para usted. Lea lo para informarse acerca de lo siguiente:
lo que necesita saber acerca de sus medicinas;
los problemas que puede tener al tomir una medicina;
lo que puede hacer en colaboraciOn con el profesional de
la salud (el medico, o medicos, el farmacéutico, el
enfermero y otros) que lo atiende, para estar seguro de que
sus medicinas le están haciendo bien.
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