Facing with the above situation, it is urgent and necessary for UK government to prepare for dealing with issues caused by aging. For example, if aging really causes the increase the amount of prescribed medicines related with the elderly diseases, in order to conquer with the problem, whether UK government should increase the yield of the related prescribed medicines? In the study, the relationship between aging and the consumption amount of prescribed medicines related with the elderly diseases will be studied, which is useful for UK government and pharma companies to understand the medical market condition of UK.
As shown in the figure X, with increasing age, whether it is one or three medicines in a week in England 2013, both men and women have consumed more medicines. At the age of 75-84, 90% of men and women have to consume at least one prescribed medicine and about 70% of them have to consume three prescribed medicines. However, for men at the age of 16-24, only 14% of them have to consume at least one prescribed medicine and 2% of them have to consume three prescribed medicines. For women at the age of 16-24, only about 25% of them have to consume at least one prescribed medicine and 3% of them have to consume three prescribed medicines. Comparing with the proportion of people in different age period to consume prescribed medicine, it is easy to see that with aging, the consumption of prescribed medicines in UK will be greatly increased because elderly people have to consume much more prescribed medicines to maintain their health. Meanwhile, from number of prescribed medicines taken in that week by different age period and different sex, it also indicates that with aging, UK will consume more prescribed medicines in the future due increase of elderly population . This can be attributed to that with age increase, the number of prescribed medicines consumed by people also increase. According to Mathers (1999), for elderly people, the nucleuses in their bodies have become large to reduce the cytoplasm and slow metabolism, so various substances can’t exchange well. Some toxic substances can’t be cleared in time that causes immunocompromise to be easily exposed to various diseases. The study of Yazbek (2008) also demonstrated that because the loss rate of bone calcium in elderly people is greater than the supplement speed, they are easy to cause fracture, become shorter and lose teeth. Besides, because of slow metabolism and organ aging, the body endurance gradually decreased with prone to blood vessels’ rupturing, blocking, hardening, etc. Therefore, elderly people are easily exposed to a number of cardiovascular diseases. It
