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Communicating Effectively With Older Adults - What Really Works. Improving Face-to-Face Communication with Older Adults II - Medication Safety

Improving Face-to-Face Communication with Older Adults II: Medication Safety will provide pharmacists and technicians with insights to promote medication safety with the goal of supporting healthier outcomes for aging patients.

  • Impact of medication problems in older adults
  • Conditions that can impede communication
  • Strategies for enhancing communication
  • Patient education and goal setting
  • Recommendations to support safe medication use

Key Words: Communication, dementia, Alzheimer's, aging, ageism, pathological aging, prescriptions, OTC drugs, supplements, medication safety, teach back method, patient education, goal setting, drug interactions, Beers Criteria, Medication Appropriateness Index

Target Audience: Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians

Course Duration: 20 minutes

 

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This program was developed by The Gerontological Society of American and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education and supported by an educational grant from McNeil Consumer Healthcare.

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