Decreasing rates of cost-related medication non-adherence by age advancement among American generational cohorts 2004-2014: a longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The access barrier to medication has been a persistent and elusive challenge in the US healthcare system and around the globe. Cost-related medication non-adherence (CRN) is an important measure of medication non-adherence behaviours that aim to avoid costs. Longitudinal study of CRN behaviours for the ageing population is rare.

Design

Longitudinal study using the Health and Retirement Study to evaluate self-reported CRN biennially.

Setting

General population of older Americans.

Participants

Three cohorts of Americans aged between 50 and 54 (baby boomers), 65-69 (the silent generation) and 80 or above (the greatest generation) in 2004 who were followed to 2014.

Intervention

Observational with no intervention.

Primary and secondary outcome m

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9083426 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature