Prescription Medication Use Among Older Adults in the US

JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Sep 1;184(9):1121-1123. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2024.2781.

Authors

Gabriel K Innes^{1

2}, Cynthia L Ogden³, Victor Crentsil¹, John Concato^{1

4}, Tala H Fakhouri¹

Affiliations

¹ Office of Medical Policy, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland.
² Epidemic Intelligence Service, Division of Workforce Developments, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
³ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This survey study describes changes in the use of prescription medications in individuals aged 65 years or older from 1999 through March 2020.

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Drug Prescriptions / statistics & numerical data
Female
Humans
Male
Prescription Drugs* / therapeutic use
United States

Substances

Prescription Drugs