Helen: Knowing about multiple medicines – The internet
Listen to patients and health professionals speak about their experience with taking multiple medicines.
Helen
Female
Age at interview: 58
Number of medicines: 10
Cultural background: Anglo-Australian
Helen’s work in health policy means that she knows which websites are the most trustworthy. She finds credible information on the internet by limiting her searches to these sites.
Well with website information, I tend to take government and medical faculty type information to be the most credible. Online discussion groups I tend to dismiss, even though they are on real experience, I think just no … no evidence base behind them. So I tend to go for the government and academic reference.
The Living with multiple medicines project was developed in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia.