When AMDA launched the Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) – Optimizing Medication Use in PALTC initiative two years ago, they hoped it would make a difference. But members of the D2D workgroup—Arif Nazir, MD, CMD; Sabine von Preyss-Friedman, MD, FACP, CMD; Michael Cinque, RPharmD; and Jennifer Pruskowski, PharmD, ...
Barbara Zarowitz, PharmD, MSW, BCPS, CGP, was surprised to receive the 2024 John Gladstone Award for Media Excellence. The award, named for AMDA’s long-time website administrator who passed away in 2022, is designed to honor and recognize contributions to the PALTC clinical community through a media projec...
This study presents a brief review of 6 articles published between 2001 and 2014 that examined the prevalence of frailty as defined by the Fried scale in community-dwelling adults representative of the national population, age 65 years and older.