Table 1.

Demographic characteristics at baseline

	Intervention (n=75)	Control (n=82)
Age (years) mean (SD)	75.7 (6.9)	76.6 (6.7)
Sex (female) (n (%))	52 (69.3)	59 (72.0)
Number of medicines (mean (SD)	8.4 (2.4)	9.3 (3.2)
DBI (mean (SD)	3.1 (1.0)	3.2 (1.0)
Marital status (n (%))
Partner	33 (44.0)	44 (53.6)
Widow/widower/Divorced/single	34 (45.3)	32 (39.0)
Unknown	8 (10.6)	6 (7.3)
Level of education (n (%))
No/low/middle	58 (77.3)	64 (78.0)
High	9 (12.0)	13 (15.8)
Unknown	8 (10.6)	5 (6.0)
Medication use at baseline (top 5 (n (%)))
ATC nervous system	75 (100)	82 (100)
ATC cardiovascular	70 (93.3)	74 (90.2)
ATC alimentary tract	64 (85.3)	71 (86.6)
ATC blood/blood forming organs	49 (65.3)	46 (56.1)
ATC respiratory tract	20 (26.7)	38 (46.3)

ATC, Anatomic Therapeutic Classification; DBI, Drug Burden Index.