Difficulty Managing Medications and Finances in Older Adults: A 10-year Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Difficulty managing medicines and finances becomes increasingly common with advanced age, and compromises the ability to live safely and independently. Remarkably little is known how often this occurs.

Objectives

To provide population-based estimates of the risk of developing incident difficulty managing medications and finances in older adults.

Design

A prospective cohort study.

Setting

The Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative study of older adults.

Participants

9,434 participants aged 65 and older who did not need help in managing medications or managing finances in 2002. Follow-up assessments occurred every 2 years until 2012.

Measurements

The primary outcomes were time to difficulty managing medications and

SUBMITTER: Bleijenberg N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5580243 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature