About the workshop materials.
In our community work, we found that older adults often need more information about their medications to be able to talk to healthcare providers and take part in medication decisions. The “Talking about Medications” workshop series was designed to provide approaches and tools for people to have these important conversations with healthcare providers.
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. The Implementation Guide, Facilitator’s Toolkit, Participant Workbook, Workshop PowerPoint slides and other materials are free to download for those interested in delivering the workshops themselves. In the recorded presentation below, we explain how to use these materials. To learn more background information about this research project click here.
Topics
Talking About Medications
Getting Reliable Medication Information
Having Conversations About Medications With Health Care Providers
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
Should you decide to download these materials, we ask that you please complete this brief survey here. We’d like to know a little bit more about who is using these materials and where they’re from. We may occasionally send information to you that we think may be of interest or value, including updates to the workshop materials.
We are also hosting a ‘train the trainer’ webinar on how to use the materials in the Fall of 2022 contact us at [email protected] to register your interest.