Impact of Hospitalizations on Problematic Medication Use Among Community-Dwelling Persons With Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospitalizations are frequently disruptive for persons with dementia (PWD) in part due to the use of potentially problematic medications for complications such as delirium, pain, and insomnia. We sought to determine the impact of hospitalizations on problematic medication prescribing in the months following hospitalization.

Methods

We included community-dwelling PWD in the Health and Retirement Study aged ≥66 with a hospitalization from 2008 to 2018. We characterized problematic medications as medications that negatively affect cognition (strongly anticholinergics/sedative-hypnotics), medications from the 2019 Beers criteria, and medications from STOPP-V2. To capture durable changes, we compared problematic medications 4 weeks prehospitalization (baseline) to 4 mo

SUBMITTER: Deardorff WJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11419320 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature