Link → Medication adherence and cognition (Patient Care Magazine)
Although critically important, medication adherence in older adults is a poorly understood phenomenon with multiple determining factors. Research on interventions to improve adherence has shown modest, but statistically significant, effects. However, results of existing studies make it difficult to determine the most important factors for improving adherence.
It is not clear the extent to which observed effects on adherence are related to already high levels of adherence in some patients. Future efforts to improve adherence may require individually-targeted interventions that consider important patient and disease characteristics. Technological devices may aid in this time-and labor-intensive effort.
