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Commentary
Care of the older person
Frailty is associated with a higher use of potentially inappropriate medications among community‐dwelling older adults
  1. Cathy Wernham1,
  2. Tomas Welsh1,2,3
  1. 1 Research Institute for the Care of Older People (RICE), Bath, UK
  2. 2 Older Person's Unit, Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK
  3. 3 Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, University Of Bristol, Bristol, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Tomas Welsh, RICE, Research Institute for the Care of Older People, Bath BA1 3NG, UK; tomas.welsh{at}nhs.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103189

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    Commentary on: Bolina AF, Gomes NC, Marchiori GF, et al. Potentially inappropriate medication use and frailty phenotype among community‐dwelling older adults: a population‐based study. J Clin Nurs 2019;28:3914–22. doi: 10.1111/jocn.14976.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Health professionals working in the community should engage in targeted medication review as part of routine practice.

    • Future research should prioritise testing methods of reducing potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) and their effectiveness in community populations.

    Context

    Frailty and the use of potentially inappropriate medications are a growing concern across the globe. A number of national and international studies have found an association between frailty and PIM use. This study seeks to add to the pool of findings by investigating this association in a community-dwelling population already participating in a longitudinal study of health conditions. The authors set out to assess the association between frailty (as defined by the Fried phenotype)1 and PIM use (as defined by the Beer’s criteria).2 …

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    Footnotes

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.