Inserted in the care universe of nursing to the elderly people, the study describes the socio-demographic profile and verifies the medication use according to gender among elders from a Family Health Program unit. METHOD: This is a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study with field research. It was used a semi-structured questionnaire, enabling to identify the profile of these users, main morbidities, used medicaments and related difficulties by them regarding the medication use. The research universe was 211 elders. In the date analysis was used SPSS software, prioritizing analytic statistic association. RESULTS: Among elderly in medication use verified female predominance, low family income and low schooling and elders living with their familiars and without difficulties in medication use. The medication use was common in moreover 90% of elders. It was verified association to "lack of difficulties in medication use" and "Family Health Program orientations" (p<0,001). CONCLUSION: It was verified that the women are in low privileged situation.
Aged; Drug Utilization; Primary Health Care; Geriatric Nursing
