Everyone experiences forgetfulness from time to time. We misplace our keys, mix up song lyrics, or can’t recall a restaurant’s name. When you have a chronic disease that affects your memory, however, forgetting can have serious consequences. Forgetfulness is the …
A Caregiver’s Guide to Professional Medication Management
Professional caregivers like you have to ensure that your elderly clients are on track with their medications. This is important to their health and wellbeing due to their more specialized and immediate medical needs. But what exactly should you focus …
How to Manage Your Medication Safely Post-Op
Any type of surgery will take a tremendous toll on your body. While the procedure should address your condition, surgery is only the first step towards recovery. After you leave the hospital, it is necessary to get the right post-surgical …
Proper Medication Management: What to Know as a Patient
If your goal is to maintain your personal health, one of the main things you should master is your medication management. This is because taking certain medicines have become a key component in modern treatment for many common ailments, and …
What to Know When Taking a 28-Day Birth Control Pills
Birth Control Pills (BCP) are essential for women who are sexually active but do not have any plans yet to get pregnant. Moreover, these medications are also prescribed to women for hormones, as these can help regulate the menstrual cycle …
How Tracking Medical Information Improves Your Healthcare Experience
One common problem that more Americans find themselves struggling with is that many people are clueless about improving the quality of healthcare they receive. Although healthcare is far from being a new or “breakthrough” system, it remains one of the …
5 Tips to Help You Stay on Track With Your Medication – Our Guide
For people with chronic medication needs, staying on schedule can be a challenge. This is especially true if you have a busy schedule and you aren’t always home for there are a lot of things you attend to during the …
Medication Maintenance: 3 Tips for Taking Antipsychotic Meds
A recurring myth about people who need antipsychotic medicine is that they aren’t dependable in taking their medicine. This old myth may have come from the misunderstanding of how mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, affect a person’s cognitive abilities. Although …
Stay on Track: 3 Simple Ways to Manage Medication for Your Senior Loved One
Age comes with wisdom, but it also introduces a plethora of medications that tend to stack through the years. AARP finds that 75 percent of people 45-years-old and older have some form of prescription, but taking the medicines isn’t as …
6 Facts About Collaborative Practice Agreements
If you are someone who takes many medications or someone who has a loved one that needs help in medication management, you might have heard about the concept of CPA. CPA stands for collaborative practice agreements, and it is a …