Age-related Trust and its Association with Cost-related Medication Nonadherence

Trust operates foundationally at the personal and societal levels, a vital force that drives social connection, cooperation, and positive outcomes. In healthcare, trust is instrumental in improving patient outcomes as it forms the foundation for shared decision-making and patient-provider relationships. With growing evidence that generalized trust toward other people grows with age and behaviors such as cost-related medication non-adherence (CRN) decrease with age we study whether lack of trust is a force that drives up CRN and its variability in effects across age groups, controlling for othe

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