Sandy: Family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances – Talking to children about medicines
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Sandy
Female
Age at interview: 72
Number of medicines: 14
Cultural background: Anglo-Australian
Sandy explained to her grandchildren about her condition and home haemodialysis. This means they understand that it helps her and that she cannot take care of them overnight when she is on her ‘machine’.
Jacqueline:
What kinds of questions did they ask about it?
Sandy:
Does it hurt? That's what their main concern was. Yeah, does it hurt Nana? Nothing else really. They just accepted it really.
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The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.