Analgesic use among community-dwelling people aged 75 years and older: A population-based interview study

Conclusions: Analgesics were used by ~50% of community-dwelling people aged ≥75 years. However, age was not significantly associated with increased use of analgesics in multivariate analysis. The majority of analgesic drugs were used on an as-needed rather than a daily basis (76.7% vs 23.3%, respectively). Factors most significantly associated with analgesic use were female sex, living alone, poor self-rated health, and use of ≥10 nonanalgesic drugs.