Table 1.

Baseline demographic characteristics and medicines used.

	Intervention group (n = 50)	Control group (n = 50)
Variables	Mean SD	Mean SD	P value
Age	86.7 ± 5.6	85.7 ± 3.6	.099
ADL	93.5 ± 8.4	93.8 ± 7.7	.984
IADL	6.8 ± 1.7	7.2 ± 1.1	.492
MMSE	24.9 ± 4.9	25.2 ± 3.9	.983
EQ-5D-3L
Mobility	1.1 ± 0.4	1.1 ± 0.3	.357
Self-care	1.0 ± 0.2	1.0 ± 0.0	.160
Usual activity	1.2 ± 0.4	1.0 ± 0.2	.085
Pain/discomfort	1.2 ± 0.4	1.3 ± 0.5	.557
Anxiety/depression	1.1 ± 0.2	1.0 ± 0.2	.665
EQ-VAS	62.1 ± 9.0	60.9 ± 7.8	.959
Medical problems	4.4 ± 1.7	4.7 ± 2.0	.538
Outpatient visits	3.8 ± 2.9	4.4 ± 3.3	.410
Hospitalization admissions	0.1 ± 0.3	0.2 ± 0.6	.658
Emergency admissions	0.2 ± 0.4	0.2 ± 0.5	.853
Numbers of drug prescribeda	9.9 ± 3.3	10.3 ± 2.9	.610
Self-reported medication usage
OTC drugs used	0.6 ± 0.8	0.6 ± 1.4	.574
Herbal medicines used	0.1 ± 0.6	0.1 ± 0.4	.739
Numbers of potentially inappropriate medications	1.2 ± 1.0	1.0 ± 0.8	.260