Tom Heller
Julia Johnson
Bill Bytheway
Rosemary Muston
Dates: 1997-2000
Funded by: Department of Health
Aims
To investigate the management of long-term medication in the lives of people aged 75 or over, living in their own homes; and to identify ways in which the primary care team can contribute to the effectiveness of such medication.
Methods
A representative sample of 77 people aged 75 or over, living in their own homes and being prescribed medication for twelve months or more. 3-4 interviews, two-week diaries, medicine logs, data extracted from medical records.
Publications
Bytheway, B. (2003) (editor) Everyday Living in Later Life , Papers from the CABS/CPA seminar, Centre for Policy on Ageing.
Bytheway, B. and Johnson, J. (2003) 'Every day's the same? A study of the management of long-term medication', in Bytheway, B. (ed) Everyday Living in Later Life , Papers from the CABS/CPA seminar, Centre for Policy on Ageing.
Bytheway, B. and Johnson, J. (2002) 'The use of diaries in the study of later life', in Jamieson, A. and Victor, C.R. (eds) Researching Ageing and Later Life: the Practice of Social Gerontology, Blackwells Publishing, Oxford.
Johnson, J. and Bytheway B. (2001) 'The use of diaries in the study of everyday life', International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Theory and Practice, 4.3, 183-204 .
Bytheway, B. (2001) ' Responsibility and routines: older people and long-term medication', Journal of Occupational Science, 8.3, 5-13 .
Johnson, J. and Bytheway, B. (2001) 'The use of medicines bought in pharmacies and other retail outlets', in Heller, T.D. et al (eds), Working for Health, SAGE.
Bytheway, B. (2001) 'Self-care', Unit 13, Working for Health (K203), The Open University.
Bytheway, B. (2000) 'A comparison of two fixed-term research and development projects that involved collaboration with practices', Primary Health Care: Research and Development, 1.4, pp. 217-28.
Refereed conference papers
Bytheway, B. (October 2000) 'Social exclusion in later life: a study of biographies of the present', Biographical Methods and Professional Practice, London.
Bytheway, B. (September 1999) Visiting in the everyday lives of people aged 75 and over, British Society of Gerontology, Bournemouth.
Bytheway, B. and Johnson, J. (July 1999) 'Living with long-term medication: people over the age of 75 years', European Congress of Gerontology, Berlin.
Bytheway, B., Johnson, J. and Heller, T. (January 1998) The use of diaries in the study of the management of long-term medication by older people, British Society of Gerontology, Sheffield.
Research report
Bytheway, B., Johnson, J., Heller, T. and Muston, R. (February 2000) The Management of Long-term Medication by Older People (pdf 1.8mb), Report to the Department of Health.
Contact: Bill Bytheway