Voice Assistant Reminders and Latency of Scheduled Medication Use in Aging Adults with Pain: A Feasibility Study (Preprint)

Pain is difficult to manage in older adults. It has been recommended that pain management in older adults should include both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic strategies. Unfortunately, nonadherence to pain medication is more prevalent than nonadherence to any other chronic disease treatment. Technology-based reminders have some benefit for medication adherence, but adherence behavior outcomes have mostly been verified by self-reports.We aimed...