Abstract
to characterize the national and international scientific production on the relationship of Functional Health Literacy and the adherence to the medication in older adults. integrative review of literature, searching the following online databases: Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO); Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS); Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE); and Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), in June 2016. We selected 7 articles that obeyed the inclusion criteria. all articles are from the USA. The inappropriate Functional Health Literacy affects the non-adherence to medication; however, there are several strategies and interventions that can be practiced to change this relationship. nursing needs to explorefurther this theme, since it can exert a differentiated care for adherence to medication in older adults, considering the literacy. caracterizar a produção científica nacional e internacional sobre a relação do Letramento Funcional em Saúde e a adesão à medicação em idosos. revisão integrativa da literatura, com busca nas bases de dados on-line: Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO); Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS); Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE); e Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), no mês de junho de 2016. Foram selecionados 7 artigos que obedeceram aos critérios de inclusão. todos os artigos são internacionais e originários dos EUA. O Letramento Funcional em Saúde inadequado influencia para a não adesão à medicação, porém há diversas estratégias e intervenções que podem ser realizadas na prática para modificar essa relação. a enfermagem precisa explorar mais essa temática, visto que pode exercer um cuidado diferenciado para a adesão à medicação em idosos, levando em conta o letramento.
Highlights
Population aging is a worldwide phenomenon that has been growing significantly in Brazil
We have as guiding question: how is it characterized the national and international scientific production on the relationship between the Functional Health Literacy (FHL) and the adherence to the medication in older adults? This study aims to characterize the national and international scientific production on the relationship of the FHL and the adherence to the medication in older adults
Due to the nature of the bibliographical research, there was no need for approval in the Committee of Ethics in Research. The sample of this Integrative Review (IR) was composed of seven articles, all international and originating in the United States of America (USA)
Summary
Population aging is a worldwide phenomenon that has been growing significantly in Brazil. The proportion of senior citizens aged 60 years or older went from 9.7% in 2004 to 13.7% in 2014(1). A quick process of population aging means relative growth of chronic conditions, especially chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), because they affect mostly the older adults[2]. The NCDs are those that contribute the most to the increase in the number of medicines to be used by older adults, since they require extended treatment and with several different medicines at the same time, which makes polypharmacyeasier[4]. Polypharmacy is usually defined as the use of many medicines simultaneously and, in older adults, is very common[5]
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