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2.
Social Trends, No. 12., 1982 Edition, HMSO, 1981.
3.
Patel, K.P. 'A prescribing dilemma', Nursing Mirror, Nov.10, 1982, p.26.
4.
Tuft, N. 'The professionals call it polypharmacy', New Age, no.19., Autumn, 1982, p.14.
5.
Breen, B. 'Structural Antecedents of Psychoactive Drug Use Among the Elderly ', Ageing and Society Vol.2., Part 1, March, 1982, p.80.
6.
The PharmaceuticalJournal, December11, 1982, p.682.
7.
Ibid, p.682.
8.
Melrose, D.Bitter Pills: Medicines and the Third World Poor, Oxfam , 1982.
9.
Kennedy, I.The Unmasking of Medicine, Paladin Books, 1983, p.23.
10.
Ibid p.23.
11.
Walker, A. 'Towards a Political Economy of Old Age', Ageing and Society, Vol.1. Part 1. March, 1981, pp. 73-94.
12.
These figures are taken from Hunt, A. The Elderly at Home, HMSO, 1978.
13.
Murphy, E. 'Old Age and Depression in the East End of London', New Age, No.21., Spring 1983, pp.22-25.
14.
Norman, A.Rights and Risk, Centre for Policy on Ageing, 1980.
15.
For a description of the various drugs used for the treatment of arthritis, see Hall, M .R.P.'Prescribing for the elderly arthritic patient', Geriatric Medicine, Vol , 11, no. 11, November, 1981, pp. 14-22.
16.
The Guardian, October 15, 1980.
17.
See the advertisement in the British Medical Journal, March 21st. 1981.
18.
Drug and TherapeuticsBulletin, Vol. 19, 1980, p.96.
19.
British Medical Journal, May 8, 1982, p.1365.
20.
Sunday Times, February 27, 1983; The Guardian, Dec. 17. 1982.
21.
This summary is taken from the PharmaceuticalJournal, January15, 1983, p.34.
22.
Sunday Times, February 27, 1983.
23.
The Pharmaceutical Journal, August 28, 1982, p.214.
24.
The Pharmaceutical Journal, January 22, 1983, p.52.
25.
Lancet, 2. 1982 , p.529.
26.
Ibid. p.529.
27.
Sharpe, D. and Kay, M. 'Worrying Trends in Prescribing', ModernGeriatrics , Vol.7, no.7, pp.32-61977 .
28.
Bowling, A. and Cartwright, A.Life After Death: A Study of the Elderly Widowed, Tavistock Publications, 1982.
29.
Allwood, M.C. et al. 'Survey of prescriptions dispensed for the elderly in East Anglia', Pharmaceutical Journal, September27, 1982, p.337.
30.
Townsend, P. and Davidson, N.Inequalities in Health: The Black Report , Penguin Books , 1982.
