Contributions of pharmaceutical care in the control of systemic arterial hypertension in elderly

Systemic arterial hypertension is a public health problem that is difficult to control. Extrinsic and intrinsic factors consist of elements that hinder their diagnostic and medical follow-up. The present study aims to make an approach about the contributions of pharmaceutical attention in the control of the systemic arterial pressure of elderly patients. This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study. For the research, a review of the scientific literature was carried out. Data were collected from the BVS using the MEDLINE and LILACS databases, BDENF, Pub-Med, CAPES Periodicals, and SciELO. The following descriptors were used: systemic arterial hypertension, hypertension control, drug treatment, pharmaceutical care. The study evidenced that the follow-up of the drug therapy is necessary to guarantee the quality of life of people affected by systemic arterial hypertension, since one of the assumptions to guarantee this quality is the patient's adherence to drug therapy.