Intrinsic Capacity Impairment Patterns and their Associations with Unfavorable Medication Utilization: A Nationwide Population-Based Study of 37,993 Community-Dwelling Older Adults

• Published in: The Journal of nutrition, health & aging Vol. 26; no. 10; pp. 918 - 925
• Main Authors: Meng, L.-C., Hsiao, F.-Y., Huang, S.-T., Lu, W.-H., Peng, Li-Ning, Chen, L.-K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Paris Elsevier Masson SAS 01.10.2022; Springer Paris; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Verlag (Germany); Elsevier
• Subjects: adverse drug reaction; Aged; Aging; Cognitive ability; cognitive disorders; Cross-Sectional Studies; decline; drug therapy; Drug use; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions - epidemiology; drugs; elderly; Geriatrics/Gerontology; Health risks; healthy aging; Human health and pathology; Humans; Inappropriate Prescribing; Independent Living; Intrinsic capacity; Latent class analysis; Life Sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Neurosciences; Nutrition; Older people; Original Research; people; Polypharmacy; Population-based studies; potentially inappropriate medication; Potentially Inappropriate Medication List; Primary Care Medicine; Quality of Life Research; regression analysis; Side effects; Taiwan; vision disorders; World Health Organization; Taiwan; potentially inappropriate medication; Intrinsic capacity; healthy aging; adverse drug reaction; polypharmacy

Our aim was to explore the patterns of intrinsic capacity (IC) impairments among community-dwelling older adults and the associations of these different patterns with excessive polypharmacy, potentially inappropriate medications, and adverse drug reactions in a nationwide population-based study. A c...