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Research Study

How does taking multiple medications affect daily life?

65+ and taking 5 or more medications daily?

Closed Recruitment

Health Areas

Dementia , Fall Prevention, Parkinson's Disease, Other Older Adults, Stroke

Study Purpose

We want to understand how medications affect daily life either positively or negatively. This includes things like: the ability to do activities you enjoy, and things you need to do like cooking or cleaning. We also want to explore how stopping a medication might have a positive or negative effect on daily life. Finally, we want to understand how well questionnaires can measure these things.

Details

- After you express interest, we will contact you and ask you a few questions to see if you are eligible to participate. If you are eligible, they will explain more about the study and send you a consent form by email - If eligible, you will take part in an interview where we ask you questions about how medications impact your daily life and give feedback on a questionnaire that tries to measure aspects of enjoying and taking part in daily life

location

Vancouver Island / Coast

Lower Mainland

Thompson - Okanagan

Kootenay

Cariboo

North Coast and Nechako

Northeast

recruitment end date

2023-08-24

eligibility

Age: 65 Years - 125 Years Old

Accepting Healthy Volunteers: No

Research Team Information

Principal investigator

Wade Thompson

health authority affiliation

No Health Authority Affiliation

academic affiliation

University of British Columbia - Vancouver

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