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Polypharmacy, regular use of 5+ prescribed medications, is common among older adults and potentially harmful. Patients differ in their concern about medications, comfort in raising questions about them, and trust and confidence in physician judgment. This pilot observational research will determine older adults' readiness to "deprescribe," that is, stop prescribed medications under physician guidance.
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The purpose of this research is to assess readiness to deprescribe, that is, to determine how willing patients are to stop prescriptions that may no longer be necessary or may no longer have a favorable benefit-risk ratio. This readiness depends on many factors, including a patient's trust in a health care provider, how proactive patients are in seeking care, and patients' comfort in changing longstanding medical regimens.
The proposed two-wave survey research will use validated instruments and recruit from an older adult research registry to determine (i) readiness to deprescribe at baseline, (ii) correlates of such readiness, and (iii) effects of intercurrent illness and changing health on readiness to deprescribe at 6 months.
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Steven M Albert, PhD
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