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Food insecurity and health outcomes among older adults
— the role of cost-related medication underuse | | Author(s) | Patience Afulani, Dena Herman, Alisha Coleman-Jensen |
| Journal title | Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics, vol 34, no 3, July-September 2015 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, July-September 2015 |
| Pages | pp 319-342 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Food ; Nutrition ; Malnutrition ; Health [elderly] ; Health services ; Drugs ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The relationship between food security and cost-related medication under-use among older adults (age 65+) in the United States is examined. This study also aims to determine if this relationship differs by sex, chronic disease status, and type of health insurance. Data are from a combined sample of older adults in the 2011 and 2012 National Health Interview Survey (N = 10,401). Both bivariate and multivariate analyses show a dose-response relationship between food insecurity and cost-related medication under-use among older people increases likelihood of cost-related medication under-use with increasing severity of food insecurity (P < 0.001). This association is not conditional on sex, chronic disease status, or type of health insurance. However, females and those with a chronic condition are more likely to report cost-related medication under-use than males and those without a chronic condition respectively. Also, older people with Medicare and Medicaid or other public insurance are less likely to report cost-related medication under-use than older people with only Medicare. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150918225 A |
| Classmark | YP: CF: CSM: CC: L: LLD: 49: 7T |
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