Knowledge among geriatric patients towards side-effects of their prescribed medication

• Main Author: Bakri, Fadhilah Mohd
• Format: Monograph
• Language: English
• Published: Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2006
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.usm.my/47836/1/FADHILAH%20MOHD.%20BAKRI-24%20pages.pdf; http://eprints.usm.my/47836/

Geriatric patients or otherwise known as 'warga em as' in Malaysia are among the population group who consume large quantity numbers of medication, due to their chronic conditions in experiencing chronic diseases and illnesses, as the aging process is undeniable to be the cause for existence of these conditions on them. Therefore certain 1nedications are prescribed for them in treating their diseases and also to reduce the signs and sytnptotns of the disease. However, within longer period of time consuming these medication, the side-effects of the medication are not possible to emerge and cause difficulty to these geriatric patients. It will be hatmful later in their late life as the geriatric patients should know well about their prescribed medication to forbid the side-effects of the medication from happening to them.