Age-Friendly Care in Post-Acute & Long-Term Care Settings:
Leveraging Pharmacists as Part of the Interdisciplinary Team
Pharmacists are one of the most accessible health care practitioners, and as the medication experts on the healthcare team, they are perfectly positioned to help older adults gain the most benefit from Age-Friendly Care. Leveraging Pharmacists as Age-Friendly 4Ms Champions brings together a common vision to improve the care of older adults. This initiative incorporates the expertise of pharmacies and pharmacists who specialize in the care of older adults into the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement and the 4Ms Framework (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility).
Funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation, the program will educate and foster pharmacy champions in the 4Ms through medication optimization in nursing homes, assisted living communities, geriatrics primary care practices, and other community settings. The American Society of Consultant Pharmacists and The Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy offer a digital badge to pharmacists as part of this initiative who have demonstrated an understanding and application of the elements of the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
1:00 pm ET
Presented by:
Nicole J. Brandt, PharmD, MBA, BCGP, FASCP | Executive Director, The Peter Lamy Center on Drug Therapy and Aging; Professor, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy; Pharmacist, MedStar Center for Successful Aging at Good Samaritan Hospital
T.J. Griffin, RPh, FASCP | Chief Clinical Officer, PharMerica
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe what Age-Friendly Care is and the 4Ms2. Define the opportunities for pharmacists and long-term care pharmacies to provide Age-Friendly Care
3. Identify strategies that encourage adoption and implementation of the principles of Age-Friendly care in post-acute and long-term care settings
4. Overcome barriers to implementing the 4Ms in post-acute and long-term care settings
CE Statement:
This program has been approved for 1 participant hour of nursing continuing education, as well as by NAB/NCERS for nursing home administrators (approval #20260526-1-A112551-DL) and is pending NABP approval for pharmacists. Attendees must be in attendance for at least 50 minutes to receive credit.
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