Today's Senior Care Pharmacists ASCP members play a vital role in managing and improving optimum drug therapy for millions of senior citizens living in long-term care facilities, subacute care and assisted living facilities, psychiatric hospitals, hospices, and in their homes. The rapidly growing population of seniors, who look to consultant pharmacists for their medication management services, consume the vast majority of prescription drugs. It's estimated the typical nursing facility resident takes nine separate prescription and nonprescription drugs.
Residents are often frail and at risk for medication-related problems.
Their care is often complex and challenging. It's the only journal dedicated to the specialty practice of long-term care pharmacy. TCP readers are the innovators of the pharmacy profession and they are in tune with the cutting edge of the challenges, innovations, and technology that will mark senior health care in the 21st century. They look for informative advertisements in the journal that provide sound information about the products, programs, and equipment they need to provide quality patient care. New technology and practices to enhance and expand the consultant pharmacy practice, from the latest on computer software, distribution systems, management techniques, and strategies to enhance the effectiveness of the inter-professional care team.