Are you or someone you care about taking a lot of prescription medications? Do you sometimes wonder how safe this is? Are you a baby boomer wanting to stay healthy as you age? Do you care for older persons, as a nurse, personal support worker, or other health care professional?

This course will help you to understand the issues surrounding medication safety. It will also give you the knowledge and resources to help the elderly, and yourself, to get the best results possible from prescription drugs.

What will you learn in this course?

1. Why medication safety matters to the elderly (or anyone else, for that matter)
2. How physiological changes of aging can affect medication safety
3. Barriers to medication safety and how to overcome them
4. Actions we can take to promote safe medication use
5. Lifestyle changes that can reduce the need for prescription drugs
6. Ways to make the most of a doctor's appointment
7. and essential questions to ask your doctor and pharmacist

By the end of this course, you will: