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E-Guide: Get a Running Start with These Steps to Address Opioid Use Disorder

Opioid use disorder (OUD) remains a significant risk for long-term care residents. In this comprehensive e-guide, learn how to recognize, treat, and prevent OUD.

E-Guide: Drug Pricing Reform Bursts Insulin Bubble — What to Expect in 2024

Extreme and consistent insulin price increases are a critical concern for US public health. Learn how key policy reforms will affect the insulin landscape and what you can expect in 2024.

E-guide: Pharmacogenomics

In this e-guide, learn about pharmacogenomics testing and how it can be used to help optimize medication regimens and guide deprescribing.

E-guide: Alzheimer’s Disease Signs, Stages, Treatment & Support

This e-guide on Alzheimer’s disease brings you the latest information about its symptoms, stages, risk factors, and treatments — plus resources to help — so you can provide the best possible care for residents.

Polypharmacy in Senior Living

Polypharmacy can be particularly dangerous for seniors – it can reduce quality of life, increase morbidity, and even lead to death. By understanding the signs and risk factors, senior living communities can help prevent polypharmacy and protect residents’ health and safety.

Drug Disposal: Safe, Compliant, and Environmentally Sound Destruction of Pharmaceutical Waste

In this eGuide, learn how to dispose of unused pharmaceuticals in a way that is both environmentally sound and compliant with applicable regulations.

8 Tips to Reduce Staff Stress and Enhance Resiliency

Chronic staffing shortages and heavier workloads can lead to burnout, performance issues, mental health problems, and poor work-life balance. Learn steps to take to support your teams so they come to work recharged and ready to meet your residents’ needs.

Thinking Traps: How to Help Residents Escape

As we get older, the parts of the brain in charge of complex thinking begin to shrink.  This can make some fall into Thinking Traps, effecting how they perceive situations around them, raise their stress levels, and hurt their relationships with others.