MEDICATION DISTRIBUTION MANUAL WITH A FOCUS ON THE ELDERLY

Introduction and Objectives The National Health System, for its complexity and features needs a structured Pharmaceutical Assistance of qualified personnel for technical support to health actions and achieving good results. It is not enough to consider that we are offering comprehensive health care when the Pharmaceutical Assistance is reduced to the medication logistics (purchase, storage and distribution). You have to add value to the actions and health services, through the development of pharmaceutical services. It is known that many factors influence the proper adherence to treatment, like low education of users, forgetting of dosages and the lack of adequate information about the therapy. The objective of this study is to create mechanisms to ensure that the act of dispensing medicines, consists in delivering the medicine with usage guidelines, focusing on the elderly as a priority. Method We started to use some strategies to minimize the most common problems that hinder the proper adherence to treatment, as pictograms, drugs holders with clear identification, and strategies to facilitate the memory of the dose times, such as stickers, drawings and collages. Conclusion (in quantification) We observed that the strategies are useful and shows positive results in the correct treatment adherence, reduce the frequency of doses neglect, featuring so that a good drug-dispensing work is an important ally in the successful treatment.