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To examine the medicine-taking habits of a representative sample of elderly people from the viewpoint of these elderly people and of the main prescribers of these medicines, their general practitioners
Main Topics:
The elderly people's health, their views and experiences of their general practitioners and the prescribed or non-prescribed medicines they take or use; their general views about medicine-taking and pharmacists' assessments of the medicines that they do take; the views and experiences of general practitioners on prescribing for the elderly and their knowledge of particular patients; elderly people's contacts with hospitals and their helpers and supporters; medicines that elderly people hoard. Measurement Scales Nottingham Health Profile; Isaacs and Walkey's Mental Impairment Measurement
Ten parliamentary constituencies were chosen from all those in England with probability proportiona
Face-to-face interview
(Elderly people); Combination of oral and postal interviews with data extracted from printed direct
