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including how to find a senior care pharmacist at http://www.seniorcarepharmacist.com/Action Step Two: Outreach to Social Work and OtherCommunity ProfessionalsIncrease awareness so allied health providers whowork close to the client in-home and in communityknow how to observe medication mismanagement andrefer clients for medication consultations.Action Step Three: Coordination of Pharmacy andSocial Service AgenciesIncrease awareness for the need for communitypharmacies to work in tandem with social serviceagencies in the communities since both serve the agedand the chronically medically and mentally ill.NOTES:ASCP Update (2000), IOM: medical errors responsible for44,000 deaths. ASCP Update: The Monthly Newsletter ofthe American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (Jan.) pp1-5.Dennehy CE, Kishi DT, Louie C (1996), Drug-relatedillness in emergency department patients. Am JHealth-Syst Pharm 53(June 15):1422-1426.Dyer, C. B., Heisler, C. J., Hill, C. A., & Kim, L.C. (2005). Community approaches to elderabuse. Clin Geriatr Med. 429-447.Johnson JA, Bootman JL (1995), Drug-relatedmorbidity and mortality. A cost-of-illness model.Arch Intern Med 155(18):1949-1956.Maura Conry’s Contact Information:(913) 599-4469 or maura@everestkc.net32
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