Centre for Policy on Ageing



Medication management: everybody's problem — strategies to meet the needs of vulnerable people
Corporate Author	National Pharmaceutical Association
Publisher	National Pharmaceutical Association, St Albans, 1998
Pages	39 pp
Source	National Pharmaceutical Association, Mallinson House, 36-42 St Peter's Street, St Albans, Herts AL1 3NP.
Keywords	Drugs ; Community care ; General practice.
Annotation	Medication management covers the processes and support systems which exist to help people who self-administer medication in the community. This report examines what medication management means to the key stakeholders in primary and community care, and to vulnerable people and their carers, focusing on older people and people with severe mental health problems. It identifies some of the consequences of poor medication management, including adverse drug reactions, drug wastage, breakdown in independent living with possible transfer to residential care. An improved medication management system would be triggered through current assessments, co-ordinated by a key medicines worker and monitored by those care professionals who are in frequent contact with the vulnerable person. However, it is also necessary to raise the issue at national policy level. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-981006215 B
Classmark	LLD: PA: L5
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing

...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing.