Simpler medication regimens for older people receiving care at home

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: polypharmacy; medication incidents; dementia; cognitive impairment; falls; hospitalisation; frailty; Public Health - Health service research; Neurological - Dementias

• Registration Number: ACTRN12618001130257
• Lead Sponsor: Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-07-10
• Study Completion: 2019-02-16
• Last Update Posted: 15 November 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 25

Inclusion Criteria

The participants will be 50 clients receiving Commonwealth Home Support Programme services or Home Care Packages in metropolitan and rural South Australia. Clients will be eligible if they are prescribed medications two or more times daily. The clients will be purposely sampled to include clients who are frail and non-frail, with and without functional impairment, and with and without dementia.

Exclusion Criteria

Clients estimated to have less than three months to live and those deemed by health professionals and caregivers to be medically unstable (e.g. experiencing delirium) will be excluded. Clients may also be excluded for any other reason at the discretion of their regular treating clinicians or informal caregivers.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified