[Adherence to the treatment in the old people]

The lack of adherence to the treatment is one of the big problems of the actual public health. It has great importance in advanced in years people, due to the increasing ageing of the population in developed countries and because of they are the population group that more often presents chronic diseases. The aim of the project was to evaluate the grade of adherence to the pharmacological treatment of patients aged 75 in a basic area of primary attention rural health.

An observational descriptive study was made from August to October 2008. Morisky Green's questionnaire is employed as a measure instrument to evaluate the grade of therapeutic fulfilment.

89 patients were studied (response rate of 100%). 55,1% of the patients didn't have got adherence with the prescribed pharmacological treatment, but 44,9% of the patients have got it. There is a bigger grade of fulfilment in women. The main cause of no adherence to the therapeutic system was the absent mindedness of taking the medical treatment (64,8%).

It is obtained from this study that the lack of adherence to the highlighted treatment is high in our basic area of health, so we have to develop activities in every day clinic practice to generate estrategies to improve the therapy fulfilment.