Supporting Older People Living With Frailty to Self-Manage Multiple Medicines: An Experience-Based Co-Design of a Complex Intervention Developed in UK Primary Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Older people face numerous challenges when managing multiple medicines. They are required to cope with complicated and changing medicines regimens and coordinate input from multiple health and social care professionals. When not well managed, medicines can cause harm, and older people are more susceptible to the impact of errors. Nevertheless, there is a lack of interventions addressing the multiple tasks required for them to manage polypharmacy at home.

Objective

To develop a complex behaviour-change intervention to support medicines self-management for older people living with frailty and polypharmacy using Experience-based Co-design (EBCD).

Design

EBCD was used to create a prototype of a resilient healthcare-informed complex intervention with the potenti

SUBMITTER: Previdoli G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12415351 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature