About the workshop series.
Join us for three free virtual workshop sessions aimed to help older adults and their care partners have conversations with health care providers about medications. Each of the 90-minute interactive workshops is led by a pharmacist. Participants will learn how to find information about medications, document and share this information with others and take part in decision-making about medication use. We will mail a participant workbook in advance and provide suggestions for ‘homework’ activities between each session. There are currently no workshops being offered, please email us to be added to our mailing list [email protected] and we will notify you of upcoming workshops.
Topics
Talking About Medications
Getting Reliable Medication Information
Having Conversations About Medications With Health Care Providers
Who should attend this workshop?
This series of workshops is intended for older people who are taking medications, as well as people who need to advocate for someone else taking medications including personal support and social workers, care coordinators and nursing staff.
Interested in delivering your own workshop?
We designed the “Talking About Medications” workshop series so that it may be easily delivered by healthcare providers for their patients and members of the public. Our team designed all the materials, for easy download and delivery for those interested in delivering the workshops themselves. The materials are available here. If you have any questions, please contact our team at [email protected]
Workshop overview
Workshop 1: Talking About Medications
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the problems of polypharmacy among older adults
- Describe how polypharmacy is a problem for you or the person you care for
- Describe some of the benefits that can result from appropriate medication management
- Explain how deprescribing is part of good prescribing and ideal medication management
Workshop 2: Getting Reliable Medication Information
Participants will be able to:
- Describe what they need to know about their medications and why it is important
- Keep track of this information in a way that is organized and easy to use
- Use reliable medication resources if they have questions
Workshop 3: Having Conversations About Medications With Health Care Providers
Participants will be able to:
- Identify questions they have about medications
- Explain the idea of shared decision making as part of useful medication conversations
- Play an important role in managing and making decisions about medications