Overcoming Barriers in Geriatric Care (Available for CE)

PQS Senior Manager of Pharmacy Accounts, Nick Dorich, PharmD talks with DeLon Canterbury, PharmD, BCGP, African American COVID-19 Task Force (AACT+) and President/CEO of GeriatRx, Inc. about barriers that geriatric care pharmacists face on a daily basis in helping their senior patients and ways to overcome them.

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Chapter 3 notes:
1Variation in Adult Outpatient Opioid Prescription Dispensing by Age and Sex — United States, 2008–2018 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6911a5.htm

Chapters

• 1:55 Introduction
• 5:35 What are some barriers geriatric pharmacists face when communicating with older patients?
• 13:15 What are the key aspects to consider with deprescribing older patients from opioids?
• 20:39 What precautions are pharmacists taking now when outreaching to at-home care patients and caregivers?
• 26:41 Closing