Symptomatic and preventive medication use according to age and frailty in Australian and Japanese nursing homes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate symptomatic and preventive medication use according to age and frailty in Australian and Japanese nursing homes (NHs).

Methods

Secondary cross-sectional analyses of two prospective cohort studies involving 12 Australian NHs and four Japanese NHs. Frailty was measured using the FRAIL-NH scale (non-frail 0-2; frail 3-6; most-frail 7-14). Regular medications were classified as symptomatic or preventive based on published lists and expert consensus. Descriptive statistics were used to compare the prevalence and ratio of symptomatic to preventive medications.

Results

Overall, 550 Australian residents (87.7 ± 7.3 years; 73.3% females) and 333 Japanese residents (86.5 ± 7.0 years; 73.3% females) were included. Australian residents used a higher mean

SUBMITTER: Liau SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10721681 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature