From Compliance to Concordance

Non-adherence may not be more prevalent in older patients and there is no consensus in the literature that age is a predictor of poor adherence (Hughes 2004). Indeed, older patients may deliberately choose not to adhere to medication 

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Royal Pharmaceutical Society (1997) From compliance to concordance towards shared goals in medicine taking. Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, London... 

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