Seniors often have health problem. Nearly 80 percent suffer from one or some illnesses.

That's why a lot of Seniors use drugs. The income from selling the drugs to Seniors for treatment in 1988 was 4,6 billion dollars, so we wait that in 1995 this point reach 10,1 billion dollars .In Great Britain and in USA, Seniors use nearly 30 percent of all drugs. In USA the average man over 65 years old gets 10.7 new and renew prescriptions in a year. During the representative research among the people elder 65 years, they find out that 70 percent use drugs, and 60 percent used one or some drugs in 24 hours before giving the interview .The average person gets 2,8 drugs. Almost every third set was recognized "farmocologicaly unargued". In Italy 40 percent of people over 70 years get 4-6 drugs daily and 12 percent get over 9.

Unuseful results of drugs
Such a lot of using the drugs give many unuseful results of drugs. "All results of therapy are high income, URD, and also harm using the drugs or unsuitable using meets among Seniors more than other different age team."

The research in Great Britain found out, that URD was a reason of 10 percent a single or partly incidents of hospitalization to geriatric section. In Canada one province has 20 percent of Seniors , who arose in hospital because of difficulties of using the drugs giving by prescription.
But argue is going on ,about depends between URD and age. Frank Young ex-accredited direction of USA in control of the food and drugs said, that the reason is only in counts of drugs which use old people.

In USA:
1 in every 6 man-under the 60 years old.
However they use:
1 from 3 tranqulizers
1 from 2 soporofic pills
1 from 3 antidepressants
2 from 3 hypotensive drugs
2 from 5 gastrointestinal tract drugs.


Accept a decision to stop setting the drugs
Now we have enough evidence, that a long term treat is not able to people, who uses the soporific pills and other psychotropic agents, diuretics, digoxin. Resetting without critics analyze stopped being in use.

Psychotropic agents. Seniors often use psychotropic agents, which give only aside effects. One of the british research found out that the half Seniors get in to hospital because of tranqulizers with quanzepam which their family doctor ordered to drink. In USA 1,5 million Seniors use daily weak tranqulizers during the year or longer, and more than 500 thousand Seniors use daily soporofic pills during the mouth or longer. Both accidents doesn't have enough information about their good effects during using them for a long time.

Recommendation to operation We should have a good look to satisfied especial needs of Seniors as an important part for creating information about drugs to people who use it and who set them to patients. People who treat the seniors should be carefully when he sets the drugs. They should be make sure that the drugs necessary to patients and use them in minimal dosage , and also patients can be good tolerance to drugs. Seniors or who cares after them should ask questions about every drug and assure doctors or medical workers to find the other way of treatment.
The government and health department have to provide people, doctors and pharmacy, the full information about drugs which can be dangerous to Seniors.
The government has to pay attention on advertisement about drugs to Seniors.

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