Pharmaceutical care (PA) is essential for the expansion of skills and interactions with patients in order to achieve better results, since it is known that the prevalence of chronic degenerative diseases in the elderly is somewhat exaggerated, and that this triggers drug treatments prolonged or uninterrupted (CARDOSO, PILOTO, 2015). In view of this, it is objectified with this literature review, evidence Pharmaceutical Care as a provider of the rational use of drugs to the elderly patient; talk

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... about the feedrate and AF setting; to address the aging and the health of the elderly and to analyze the AF in the elderly patient. This monographic work deals with a review of the literature, through the survey and consultations in scientific sites, such as Scientific Electronic Library online (SciELO), Latin American Caribbean Literature in Health Science (LILACS), throughout the historical process (the care that a patient should receive, in a responsible way, to obtain the rational use of medicines and provide quality of life to the patient), a term that Hepler and Strand (1990). In the 1990s, they used for the first time in the scientific literature, highlighting the dialogical relationship between the professional, responsible for the discriminated and rational use of the product, following their knowledge and acquired techniques. as well as its definition, and it was approached the aging of the elderly and their health, as well as AF should be applied in the situation of these patients, demo it was pointed out how AF is being referred to in Brazil, with special attention to the elderly, so as to make clear the idea that at the national level this is still not a daily reality. Keywords: Pharmaceutical care, elderly patient, rational use of medicines. INTRODUÇÃO Atenção farmacêutica (AF) é essencial para a ampliação de habilidades e interações com os pacientes com intuito de atingir melhores frutos, pois sabe-se que a prevalência de doenças crônicas degenerativas em idosos é de uma certa forma exagerada, e que isso desencadeia tratamentos medicamentosos prolongados ou ininterruptos. Ainda que a utilização de medicamentos signifique uma demanda proeminente em todas as idades, as pesquisas a respeito do tema têm se destinado, constantemente, ao paciente idoso, em consequência das particularidades desse grupo etário. O envelhecimento não é uma doença, porém é a causa de muitas mudanças nos idosos, colocando em comprometimento sua qualidade de vida, fazendo com que 1 Trabalho de conclusão de curso.