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Keeping Residents Sun Safe This Summer
A little sun can promote the production of vitamin D, elevate mood, and encourage seniors to be more active. Too much, however, can cause serious consequences, like skin damage, sunburn, eye damage, or skin cancer. And some commonly prescribed medications can increase sun sensitivity, increasing these risks. Learn how you can help residents enjoy the outdoors and safely reap the benefits of the summer sun.
Sleep in PALTC: What’s Changed, What Matters, What to Do
Sleep is vital to optimal health. In older adults, poor or not enough sleep can affect cognition, raise fall risk, and have a negative impact on cardiovascular health. Learn how sleep screening, non-pharmacological interventions, and medications (if appropriate) can help residents get more of the high-quality sleep they need to live their best lives.
Developing Person-Centered Treatment Plans for COPD
COPD affects about 20% of residents in long-term care. It not only causes difficulty breathing but also contributes to cognitive decline and often appears with comorbidities like cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorders, osteoporosis, and lung infections. Learn how person-centered care plans can enhance COPD care, improve outcomes, and help ensure that residents’ wishes and preferences are respected.
Age-Friendly Care
One of the keys to providing the best possible care for seniors, while also preventing unnecessary ER visits, is understanding their unique medication needs. To do this, many senior care pharmacists are embracing the Age-Friendly Model. Learn more about how this model enhances care and what it looks like in action.
What’s That You Say? Hearing Problems in Older Adults
More than half of adults over age 70 have some degree of hearing loss. This affects their ability to understand important information and may also cause feelings of isolation. Learn more about the types and causes of hearing loss and how your pharmacist can help.
Streamlining Medication Pass in Senior Living Communities
Staffing shortages, stringent federal and state regulatory requirements, and increasingly complex medication regimens have made the medication pass process more challenging and time consuming in senior living. This new article highlights the insights and recommendations to make med pass more efficient — and effective.
The Future of Aging: Resident Engagement & Responsible AI
By the year 2050, nearly one quarter of Americans will be age 65 or older, which means we must start thinking now about how best to meet their needs. This article explores the future of care for seniors and provides insight into what residents want, how to engage them, and how the thoughtful, responsible use of AI can help enhance quality of care.
Emphasizing the Care in Transitions
Managing care transitions and reducing readmissions is a challenge for practitioners caring for older adults in any setting. Medication issues are the cause of many readmissions and are often preventable. In this article, learn how to increase safety around transitions of care, best practices to reduce medication-related risks, and how a pharmacist can help.
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, updated for 2026, provides tips on preventing the spread of infections, advice on managing outbreaks, and a checklist to help you stay survey ready.
Artificial Intelligence & Its Impact on Nursing Care
AI is everywhere, and that includes nursing care. Learn about the benefits and pitfalls of this new technology, when and where to use it, how to choose the right platform, and how AI can help nurses provide high quality care.
Enhancing Medication Management in Senior Living: Trends, Technology, and Data
Our new white paper highlights the critical role of pharmacy services in senior living communities and demonstrates how data-driven insights can lead to improved outcomes, enhanced efficiency, and continuous quality improvement.
Cost-Conscious Care: Golden View Health Care
Learn how Golden View Health Care Center’s partnership with PharMerica has helped them navigate uncertainty, improve operational efficiency, and continue their mission of providing high-quality care to residents.
Pharmacy Benefits: Key to Health, Safety, and Adherence
Helping residents understand their pharmacy benefits and choose the best plan may help avoid hospitalizations, manage conditions more effectively, and improve quality of life. Learn the basics of pharmacy benefits, ways to save on prescriptions, and how your community’s consultant pharmacist can help.
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.
The Role of the Long-Term Care (LTC) Pharmacist in Senior Living
Many seniors rely on prescription medications, and for those juggling several prescriptions, risks like side effects and dangerous interactions can stand in the way of optimal health. Senior care pharmacists have the specialized knowledge and training to safeguard against these challenges and help older adults experience the best possible health outcomes.
Powerful Partnership: Ciel Senior Living
Running a senior living community is no small task, especially with 14 communities spanning nine states. Learn how Ciel Senior Living and PharMerica created a powerful partnership that saves time for staff, improves satisfaction and retention, and helps them provide the highest quality care to their residents.
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.
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.
Fall Risk Toolkit
Falls can have serious consequences for seniors. Our toolkit 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.
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.
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.