Walgreens Health Services > Long-Term Care Pharmacy > Assisted living > Dedicated team support > Consultant pharmacist

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A Walgreens consultant pharmacist can conduct medical reviews, help seniors avoid medication-related complications and answer questions from patients taking medications prescribed by multiple doctors.

For residents

• Helps ensure a resident's medication therapy is appropriate, effective, safe and used correctly
• Helps identify, resolve and prevent medication-related problems including drug and drug-food interactions, dosing or therapeutic duplications interfering with therapy
• Provides medication recommendations related to specific diseases or conditions affecting seniors
• Identifies medications that may be unnecessary and/or cause adverse side effects
• Helps ensure adherence to the Beers' Criteria for safe use of medications specific to seniors
• Performs risk assessments to identify seniors at risk for behavioral disturbances, falls, diabetes and cognitive impairment
• Communicates with prescribers to suggest safer and, perhaps, less expensive therapies and medications
• Advocates wellness through health screenings and immunizations

For your community

• Observes adherence to medication pass and medication ordering procedures
• Assists with regulatory compliance related to surveyor's issues
• Provides your community with medication information specific to seniors
• Reviews and provides recommendations for your community's medication room, medication storage and medication destruction
• Provides educational programs to your staff on topics such as diabetes, dementia, incontinence, etc.