Factors associated with psychotropic drug use among the elderly living at home

Journal of Applied Gerontology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 238-254

  Gustafsson, Tove M ^a   Isacson, Dag G L ^a   Thorslund, Mats ^b   Sörbom, Dag ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG USE; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSING HOME; PSYCHOSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0029895898     PISSN: 07334648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/073346489601500207     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Allgulander, C. (1989), Psychoactive drug use in a general population sample, Sweden: Correlates with perceived health, psychiatric diagnoses, and mortality in an automated record-linkage study. American Journal of Public Health, 79, 1006-1010.
2. Berg, S., Mellström, D., Persson, G., & Svanborg, A. (1981). Loneliness in the Swedish aged. Journal of Gerontology, 36(3), 342-349.
3. Bowling, A., & Farquhar, M. (1991). Associations with social networks, social support, health status and psychiatric morbidity in three samples of elderly people. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 26, 115-126.
4. Cafferata, G. L., & Meyers, S. M, (1990). Pathways to psychotropic drugs; Understanding the basis of gender differences. Medical Care, 28, 285-300.
5. Carsjö, K., Thorslund, M., & Wärneryd, B. (1994). The validity of survey data on utilization of health and social services among the very old. Journal of Gerontology, 49, 156-164.
6. Closser, M. H. (1991). Benzodiazepines and the elderly: A review of potential problems. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 8, 35-41.
7. Goldberg, E. L., Van Natta, P., & Comstock, G. W. (1985). Depressive symptoms, social networks and social support of elderly women. American Journal of Epidemiology, 121, 448-456.
8. Isacson, D. (1988). Heavy use of prescription drugs: Pharmacoepidemiological studies in a Swedish community. In Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine (No. 178). Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.
9. Isacson, D., Carsjö, K., Bergman, U., & Blackburn, J. L. (1992). Long-term use of benzodiazepines in a Swedish community: An eight-year follow-up. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 45, 429-436.
10. Isacson, D., & Haglund, B. (1988). Psychotropic drug use in a Swedish community - the importance of demographic and socioeconomic factors. Social Science & Medicine, 26, 477-483.
11. Jones, D. A., Victor, C. R., & Vetter, N. J. (1985). The problem of loneliness in the elderly in the community: Characteristics of those who are lonely and the factors related to loneliness. Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 35, 136-139.
12. Joreskog, K-G., & Sörbom, D. (1993). LISREL 8: Structural equation modeling with the SIMPLIS command language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
13. Jörgensen, T. M., Isacson, D.G.L., & Thorslund, M. (1993). Prescription drug use among ambulatory elderly in a Swedish municipality. Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 27, 1120-1125.
14. Krause, N. (1987). Satisfaction with social support and self-rated health in older adults. The Gerontologist, 27, 301-308.
15. Landahl, S. (1987). Drug treatment in 70-82-year-old persons. Acta Medica Scandinavica, 221, 179-184.
16. Livingstone, G., Hawkins, A., Graham, N., Blizard, B., & Mann, A. (1990). The Gospel Oak Study: Prevalence rates of dementia, depression and activity limitation among elderly residents in Inner London. Psychological Medicine, 20, 137-146.
17. Läkemedelsinformation AB. (1986). Farmaceutiska specialiteter i Sverige (FASS) 1986 [Pharmaceutical specialities in Sweden 1986]. Stockholm, Sweden: Author.
18. Läkemedelsinformation AB. (1994). Farmaceutiska specialiteter i Sverige (FASS) 1994 [Pharmaceutical specialities in Sweden 1994]. Stockholm, Sweden: Author.
19. Ottosson, J-O. (1988). Psykiatri [Psychiatry] (pp. 134-136). Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell.
20. Ried, L. D., Christensen, D. B., & Stergachis, A. (1990). Medical and psychosocial factors predictive of psychotropic drug use in elderly patients. American Journal of Public Health, 80, 1349-1353.
21. Riska, E., & Klaukka, T. (1984). Use of psychotropic drugs in Finland. Social Science & Medicine, 19, 983-989.
22. SAS Institute Inc. (1985a). SAS User's Guide: Basics, Version 5 Edition. Cary, NC: Author.
23. SAS Institute Inc. (1985b). SAS User's Guide: Statistics, Version 5 Edition. Cary, NC: Author.
24. SCB, Levnadsförhållanden. (1992). Ohälsa och sjukvård 1980-89. Rapport no 76. [Living conditions, Health and Medical Care, 1980-89,- Report No. 76, Statistics Sweden]. Stockholm, Sweden: Author.
25. Shorr, R. I., Bauwens, S. F, & Landefeld, C. S. (1990). Failure to limit quantities of benzodiazepine hypnotic drugs for outpatients: Placing the elderly at risk. The American Journal of Medicine, 89, 725-732.
26. Swartz, M., Landerman, R., George, L. K., Melville, M. L., Blazer, D., & Smith, K. (1991). Benzodiazepine anti-anxiety agents: Prevalence and correlates of use in a Southern community. American Journal of Public Health, 81, 592-596.
27. Thorslund, M., Norström, T., & Wernberg, K. (1991). The utilization of home help in Sweden: A multivariate analysis. The Gerontologist, 31, 116-119.
28. Thorslund, M., & Wärneryd, B. (1990). Surveying the elderly about health, medical care and living conditions: Some issues of inconsistency. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 11, 161-173.
29. Westerling, R. (1988). Diagnoses associated with the prescription of psychotropic drugs at a Swedish health centre. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 6, 93-98.
30. Weyerer, S., & Dilling, H. (1991). Psychiatric and physical illness, sociodemographic characteristics and the use of psychotropic drugs in the community: Results from the upper Bavarian Field Study. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 44, 303-311.