Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Observational [Patient Registry]
Official Title: Medication Misuse and Dependence in Elderly Patients
Brief Summary:
The project focuses on investigating problematic medication use, especially overuse of potentially addictive drugs among the elderly.
The investigators aim firstly to develop and validate instruments for detecting and describing behavioral aspects and consequences of dependence on, and misuse of, prescription medication among elderly.
In addition to evaluating diagnostic utility of screening instruments, the investigators aim to identify and report characteristics, risk factors and consequences of medication misuse and dependence among the elderly.