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Abstract
The aim to assess family care giver’s knowledge and practice regarding the medication errors among elderly people Through : Assessing causes of medication errors, Assessing effect of medication errors on health status of elderly people, Assessing care giver awareness regarding medication error in elderly people and assessing knowledge of elderly people and care giver about medication errors. Design : descriptive design study was followed Setting : The study was conducted in the elderly clinic at outpatient at el shohadaa gouvernorat hospital and ain shams hôspital divided into:1sttool: An interviewing questionnaire which includes: elderly people socio demographic characteristic, medical history and medication assessment toward health status, and An interviewing questionnaire which includes: Family care giver’s socio demographic characteristic, knowledge and practice toward medication errors among elderly people, 2ndTool: Observational Check list toward medication administration 3rd Tool: Likert scale toward medication administration. Result: The present study concluded that, the family caregivers knowledge and practice already effect on the medication errors through elderly people 56.6% of the studied caregivers had poor level of knowledge regarding medication errors, 31.5% of them had average level, while 12.1% of them had good level of knowledge regarding medication error. The evidence suggests that this role is complex and is often made more difficult because of increasing medication complexities, health system practice and a lack of information, and training available to the family caregiver. Conclusion: There was positive correlation between family caregiver’s knowledge and practices regarding medication errors among elderly people, Responsibility for managing medications for older adults in the community often falls to informal caregivers. Recommendation: future studies are needed for replication of study with program in other outpatient clinic.