The Roles of Busyness and Daily Routine in Medication Management Behaviors Among Older Adults

Tara C. Klinedinst; Lauren Opsasnick; Julia Yoshino Benavente; Michael Wolf; Rachel O’Conor

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The Roles of Busyness and Daily Routine in Medication Management Behaviors Among Older Adults

Tara C. Klinedinst^*, Lauren Opsasnick, Julia Yoshino Benavente, Michael Wolf, Rachel O’Conor

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Abstract

Busyness (the density of activities) and daily routine (patterns of organizing time) are two understudied factors that likely impact medication-taking behaviors. We examined the association between busyness and routine with medication adherence (MA) in 405 older adults with adequate cognition using multivariable models. The final model included an interaction term between daily routine and busyness. MA scores (measured by the ASK-12, higher scores mean more barriers to adherence) were higher for individuals reporting low and moderate levels of daily routine versus those with high daily routine. MA scores were higher for individuals reporting moderate and high busyness versus those reporting low busyness. The busyness/routine interaction term was significant for MA; among highly busy individuals, those with high daily routine had lower MA scores than those with low routine. A daily routine may be a modifiable factor for improving MA among older adults, particularly among those with busy lives.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2566-2573
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Applied Gerontology
Volume	41
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648221120246
State	Published - Dec 2022

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The authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: M.W. reports grants from Merck, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the NIH, and Eli Lilly outside the submitted work; and personal fees from Sanofi, Pfizer, and Luto outside the submitted work. The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was completed while the first author was supported by funding from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research and the Administration on Community Living (grant number 12877426). This study was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (R01AG030611), with institutional support from UL1TR001422. The funding agency played no role in the study design, collection of data, analysis, or interpretation of data. Dr. O\u2019Conor is supported by the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine (P30AG059988) and a training grant from the National Institute on Aging (K01AG070107). Study protocol and statistical code are available from Dr. O\u2019Conor (e-mail, [email protected]). Data set is available to those who meet prespecified criteria; access allowed to deidentified data only. Available from Dr. O\u2019Conor (e-mail, [email protected]). The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was completed while the first author was supported by funding from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research and the Administration on Community Living (grant number 12877426). This study was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (R01AG030611), with institutional support from UL1TR001422. The funding agency played no role in the study design, collection of data, analysis, or interpretation of data. Dr. O\u2019Conor is supported by the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine (P30AG059988) and a training grant from the National Institute on Aging (K01AG070107).

Keywords

activities of daily living
applied cognition
chronic illness
health behaviors
medication

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Geriatrics and Gerontology

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