Senior Care Pharmacist最新文献

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is often diagnosed with other comorbid conditions. This can complicate therapy overall by contributing to adverse events leading to poor outcomes to not only COPD, but other comorbid conditions. This manuscript will discuss common comorbid conditions often seen with COPD, update vaccination recommendations for COPD patients, and provide information regarding smoking cessation in COPD. The senior care pharmacist has an important role where they can recommend medication adjustments to potentially avoid these adverse events, immunize their patients appropriately, and provide assistance with smoking cessation to improve not only COPD outcomes but outcomes associated with other comorbid conditions.

Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been around since the 1950s, it has become a phenomenon within the past couple of years, peaking in online search results in early 2023, following the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT. Inevitably, concerns began to surface over the impact that AI would have on jobs in an advanced economy like the United States.

Although the concept of telehealth has been in development for many years, the global pandemic galvanized its growth and utility. In general, people adopt technological advancements at different velocities that, when plotted in a chart, resemble a bell-shaped curve. People who are quick to adopt new technologies are designated innovators, while those who are the very last to adopt new technologies are dubbed laggards. Often, older people fall into the laggard category for several reasons including physical, mental, and emotional barriers. In some cases, they lack the technology or experience with various programs that would make such programs accessible. Regardless, telehealth has proven its worth as a way to deliver care in areas distant to the health care provider when physical examination is unnecessary. It can reduce the likelihood of exposure to contagious disease. Telehealth also has the potential to reduce unnecessary emergency department visits, and long-term care facilities that have used telehealth have demonstrated cost savings. Little study has been conducted to determine how pharmacists are using telehealth, but after examining available research on telehealth, pharmacists can identify pitfalls and implement steps that reduce barriers for older people.

Just as practitioners in the 1980s were blissfully unaware of what the future held, today's new practitioners can only speculate about the future of the profession. To move the profession forward will require singular focus upon the core values of what pharmacists can and should represent in the health care system.

Objective Community pharmacists play an important role in providing many essential services to older adult patients. This study aimed to assess participants' awareness and utilization of current services provided by the community pharmacy and to identify preferences for innovative strategies and services related to healthy aging. Design This is community-based research using interviews with older people in community pharmacies. Student pharmacists performed the interviews, asking 11 questions developed by the research team. The interview questions included services currently provided by the community pharmacy to determine patient awareness and use. Setting One-on-one structured interviews with participants 50 years of age and older were conducted at community pharmacies in Arizona. Results A total of 53 older people (54.7% female) participated, with most patients knowledgeable about current pharmacy services and 69.7% using at least one service. When asked if they would participate in innovative services, more than half of those interviewed (56.6%) were interested in medication side effect screening and education, and 54.7% would want to participate in medication review with drug interaction screening. Almost half were interested in lifestyle education for healthy aging in nutrition and physical activities (49.1%) and medication disposal (47.2%). Most participants preferred to communicate in person with their pharmacists, but some showed interest in mobile phone texts and calls. Conclusion Community pharmacies may be a viable setting to provide novel services to promote healthy aging among older people, particularly medication side effect and drug interaction screenings and education.