Subjective memory complaints in elderly: relationship with health status, multimorbidity, medications, and use of services in a population-based study.

Background: This study examines the associations between subjective memory complaints (SMC) and health variables: multimorbidity, presence of certain diseases, health perceived state, difficulties seeing and hearing, pain, and use of medications and health services. Furthermore, we aim to identify risk groups based on multimorbidity and calculate the effect size for each of these relationships.

Methods: Cross-sectional epidemiological study using a face-to-face interview with a structured questionnaire.