Attitudes toward deprescribing among older adults with dementia in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with dementia (PWD) take medications that may be unnecessary or harmful. This problem can be addressed through deprescribing, but it is unclear if PWD would be willing to engage in deprescribing with their providers. Our goal was to investigate attitudes toward deprescribing among PWD.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional study of 422 PWD aged ≥65 years who completed the medications attitudes module of the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) in 2016. Proxies provided responses when a participant was unable to respond due to health or cognitive problems. Attitudinal outcomes comprised responses to two statements from the patients' attitudes toward deprescribing questionnaire and its revised version (representing belief about the necessity of one's m

SUBMITTER: Growdon ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9177826 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature