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Preventing Falls in Senior Living Communities
Each year, more than 14 million older adults experience a fall. While some falls result in nothing more than a bruise or scrape, some cause serious injuries like hip fractures and head injuries. Learn how to recognize and manage risk factors and get strategies for prevention.
Understanding and Reducing Polypharmacy in Senior Living
Multiple chronic conditions, doctors, and pharmacies all contribute to polypharmacy, a common issue for older adults. This article takes a deep dive into the causes of polypharmacy, steps your community can take to prevent it, and how your pharmacist can help.
Powerful Partnerships: Muriel Sumowalt
Muriel Sumowalt and her team are committed to ongoing excellence, achieving high occupancy rates and drastically reducing their reliance on agency staff. Learn how she keeps all the moving parts in sync and how working with PharMerica Senior Living enhances safety and efficiency.
Powerful Partnerships: Ashley Guido
Every day, Ashley Guido faces an ever-changing regulatory landscape that varies from state to state. The key to meeting these challenges, she says, is a strong, engaged, and informed team that includes PharMerica Senior Living.
Tech Trends in Senior Living: What You Need to Know
From wearable devices, like smart watches and bands, to automatic medication dispensers, there is no shortage of technology designed to enhance the health and well-being of seniors. Learn more about current trends, what the future holds, and how to implement technology into your community.
Keep Residents Safe Against Potential Opioid Overdose
Drug overdoses are becoming more common, including among seniors. Learn 10 tips to help communities mitigate the risk of opioid overdose through education, training, and policies to direct the appropriate use of naloxone.
3 Steps to Medication Optimization
90% of long-term care residents take more than 5 medications. These complex regimens can lead to polypharmacy, adverse events, and hospitalizations. Learn 3 steps to implementing a sustainable approach to medication optimization that can mitigate these issues while also improving health outcomes.
Hospice Roles and Responsibilities: Tips on Managing Care in Your Community
As more people recognize the value of hospice, the number of Americans using these services for end-of-life comfort and support is increasing. Learn how to manage vendors, communicate effectively with residents and families, and successfully incorporate hospice into your community.
6 Tips for CGM Success
Continuous glucose monitors, or CGMs, are not only a more comfortable option for residents, but also a time saver for staff. Learn more about how this technology can enhance care, training staff to use it, and introducing it to residents and families.
Preparedness Can Help Make Disasters Less Stressful
Natural disasters can happen at any time, sometimes without warning. Learn how your pharmacy can help you ensure essential medications are available if disaster strikes.
2024-25 Fall Risk Toolkit
Falls can have serious consequences for seniors. Our toolkit, newly updated for 2024-2025, takes a deep dive into the causes of falls, how your pharmacist can help mitigate medication-related risks, and the steps your community can take to evaluate risk and prevent life-altering falls.
Infection Prevention Guide: Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices
Infection prevention and control can be a serious challenge in long-term care settings. This comprehensive guide provides tips on preventing the spread of infections, advice on managing outbreaks, and a checklist to help you stay survey ready.
Hurdling the Challenges of Rising Acuity
As demographics change, staff at senior living communities may find themselves caring for residents with rising acuity — more chronic conditions and a need for a higher level of care. Learn 5 ways your community can prepare for the shift and continue to provide optimal care to your residents.
3 Steps to Increased Staff Satisfaction
Workers in health care are especially prone to burnout. To reduce stress and increase satisfaction, evaluating and enhancing workplace culture is essential. Learn how a focus on values, communication, and mindfulness can be the keys to banishing burnout.
6 Ways to Enhance Seniors’ Mental Health
Over the last few years, mental health diagnoses for people over 65 have skyrocketed. Learn 6 ways your community can help residents stay engaged and connected to reduce the impacts of depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
Fall Prevention Using Pharmacogenomics
Learn how pharmacogenetic testing, offered through our partner AccessDx, can help identify risk factors, support medication selection, and optimize dosing to reduce fall risk and protect the safety and well-being of residents.
Managing Acuity Creep in Senior Living
Increasing acuity among residents in senior living communities is a multi-faceted challenge. See how staffing, occupancy, and medication each play a part and learn tips for managing acuity creep in your community.
6 Keys to Keeping Residents Safe from ADEs
Adverse drug events (ADEs) can be severe or even life threatening. Learn how open communication, vigilance, and technology can help keep residents safe from unnecessary harm.
8 Steps to Manage Your Online Reputation
Your online reputation is critical, and everyone plays a part. Follow these eight tips to help ensure prospective residents, families, job seekers, and legislators see your organization in the best possible light.
5 Steps to Manage Aggression in Senior Living
Whether perpetrated by residents, staff, or visitors, aggressive behaviors aren’t uncommon in senior living. Learn 5 tips to help foster a better understanding of aggression and keep everyone safe.
SGLT2s and GLP-1s and Their Role in Managing Heart Health
Some non-insulin medications are contraindicated in patients with certain cardiac conditions — a fact that can make caring for diabetic residents a challenge. Fortunately, two drug classes have shown to be effective alternatives for those with both diabetes and heart disease. Learn more about these treatment options.
Stay Vigilant to Ease Elopement Risks
Elopement is a serious risk; nearly half of all residents with dementia are likely to wander, some repeatedly. Learn how technology, staff training, and a focus on resident safety can help.
How Nurses Can Make the Manager Role a Perfect Fit
Being a great nurse doesn’t always equate to being a great leader. Learn 5 key skills successful nurse managers need along with tips on how to nurture them.
Pain Management: How Communities Can Ensure Safe, Effective Relief
Pain is common in post-acute and long-term care residents, but it’s often undiagnosed and may go untreated. Learn how your community can help provide optimal pain relief while minimizing the risk of complications.
5 Tips to Win the War Against Medication Waste
Thousands of tons of medications are flushed down the drain or wind up in landfills every year. Learn how your facility can reduce medication waste in a cost-effective way while maximizing quality of care.
4 Steps to Successful Deprescribing
Deprescribing is a valuable tool for combatting polypharmacy and improving outcomes for residents, but it needs to be undertaken with care. Learn 4 steps to effective deprescribing and how to start and continue the conversation with residents and their families.