Intrinsic Capacity Impairment Patterns and their Associations with Unfavorable Medication Utilization: A Nationwide Population-Based Study of 37,993 Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our aim was to explore the patterns of intrinsic capacity (IC) impairments among community-dwelling older adults and the associations of these different patterns with excessive polypharmacy, potentially inappropriate medications, and adverse drug reactions in a nationwide population-based study.

Design

A cross-sectional study included older adults from the Taiwan Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) program in 2020.

Setting and participants

The study subjects comprised 38,308 adults aged 65 years and older who participated in the ICOPE Step 1 screening and assessed six domains of IC following the World Health Organization (WHO) ICOPE approach.

Methods

Latent class analysis was adopted to identify distinct subgroups with different IC impairments p

SUBMITTER: Meng LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12275521 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature