Voice Assistant Reminders and the Latency of Scheduled Medication Use in Older Adults With Pain: Descriptive Feasibility Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pain is difficult to manage in older adults. It has been recommended that pain management in older adults should include both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic strategies. Unfortunately, nonadherence to pain medication is more prevalent than nonadherence to any other chronic disease treatment. Technology-based reminders have some benefit for medication adherence, but adherence behavior outcomes have mostly been verified by self-reports.

Objective

We aimed to describe objective medication adherence and the latency of medication use after a voice assistant reminder prompted participants to take pain medications for chronic pain.

Methods

A total of 15 older adults created a voice assistant reminder for taking scheduled pain medications. A subsample of 5 parti

SUBMITTER: Shade M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8512193 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature