INCREASING AWARENESS OF INAPPROPRIATE POLYPHARMACY IN THE OLDER
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INCREASING AWARENESS OF INAPPROPRIATE POLYPHARMACY IN THE OLDER ADULT; RATIONALISING MEDICATIONS PILOT Raising awareness of health professionals and patients supporting them to ask questions and encourage dialogue about their own health care and options Sarah Shellard PCNS Hutt Valley DHB 2018
Sarah Shellard PCNS Hutt Valley DHB 2018
Starting a conversation ■ Rationalising medication is a patient centered approach ■ It’s shared decision making - its ethical ■ It’s asking the question ■ Improves patients outcomes Sarah Shellard PCNS Hutt Valley DHB 2018
Sarah Shellard PCNS Hutt Valley DHB 2018
Working group ■ Sarah Shellard (PCNS) ■ Eileen Bass (SMO) ■ Paul Healy (SMO) ■ Rachael Cooke (Pharmacist HVDHB) ■ Chris Masters (Clinical Services Director, Strategy Planning) ■ Siew Tan (Te Omanga Hospice) ■ Barbara Moore (PHO Clinical Advisory Pharmacist) ■ Mary Daly (Nurse Practitioner, Older Person Health) ■ Perminder Kaur (MOSS OPRS) ■ Gregory Evans, (Coach/Public Health Registrar) Sarah Shellard PCNS Hutt Valley DHB 2018
objective ■ Our project objective is to increase awareness of the overuse and misuse of medication and provide health professionals with the resources needed to support them in the rationalising of patient’s medications. We will increase public awareness of polypharmacy and envisage that this will lead to patients and families feeling more comfortable discussing their medical regimes with their GP/Health professional/specialist. ■ The ultimate goal of this program is to develop a sustainable culture in which education regarding polypharmacy and the rationalising of medication is normal practice. Sarah Shellard PCNS Hutt Valley DHB 2018
Sarah Shellard PCNS Hutt Valley DHB 2018
