Willingness of older people living with dementia and mild cognitive impairment and their caregivers to have medications deprescribed.

ABSTRACT:

Background

people living with cognitive impairment commonly take multiple medications including potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs), which puts them at risk of medication related harms.

Aims

to explore willingness to have a medication deprescribed of older people living with cognitive impairment (dementia or mild cognitive impairment) and multiple chronic conditions and assess the relationship between willingness, patient characteristics and belief about medications.

Methods

cross-sectional study using results from the revised Patients' Attitudes Towards Deprescribing questionnaire (rPATDcog) collected as baseline data in the OPTIMIZE study, a pragmatic, cluster-randomised trial educating patients and clinicians about deprescribing. Eligible participants were

SUBMITTER: Reeve E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9879708 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature