Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the prevalence and factors associated with medication prescription in institutionalized elderly. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, in which 27 elderly people, of both sexes, who lived in the sole long-term care institution for the elderly in the municipality of Boa Vista, Roraima, for more than 30 days in the period of the data collection. To characterize the pharmacotherapeutic profile of the elderly, data were collected through the analysis of medical records and medical prescriptions and subsequently classified according to the WHOCC. Finally, the data were processed and tabulated using Microsoft Office Excel® 2016 software and analized with the help of the statistical software R-project. Results: It was evidenced that all the elderly used at least one medication, with a prevalence of polymedicated elderly (88.9%) and drugs that act on the nervous system (29.6%), with dipyrone being the drug most frequently prescripted (59.3%). These results reinforce the importance of establishing an interdisciplinary team with a focus on the quality of care provided, and, consequently, arousing interest in new investigations on the object of study, given the increase in life expectancy of the population.