Drawing upon the experience and wisdom of more than 30 successful, practicing senior care pharmacists, this manual provides guidance and tools for exploring new opportunities for developing or expanding a senior care pharmacist practice.
The manual combines an extensive variety of practice tools, reference resources, sample documentation and forms, and marketing and business planning that can be applied to a wide variety of non-traditional care settings including many that are profiled in this manual written by successful, practicing senior care pharmacists!
See a complete list of senior care pharmacists that contributed to the manual
Components of this Manual
Guidance for Developing a Practice:
- Preparing for Your Practice - Professional Readiness
- The Value of Credentialing
- Medication Therapy Management Services
- Practice Goals
- Patient Recruitment
- The Important Role of the Caregiver
- Quality Standards and Practice Principles for Senior Care Pharmacists
Who, What, How - 26 Practice Setting Profiles by Successful Senior Care Pharmacists that provide:
- Practice Setting Description
- Funding/Payment Sources
- Decision Makers
- Strategies and Possible Roles for the Consultant Pharmacist
- Reference Resources
- PLUS many of these practice experts have provided email contacts for additional support!
Practice Settings Profiled include:
- Accountable Care Organizations
- Adult Day Care Centers and Senior Centers
- Area Agencies on Aging (AAA)
- Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs)
- Clinics within a Retail Pharmacy Setting
- Facilities for Developmental Disabilities (ICF/MR/DD)
- Geriatric Care Management Organization
- Home Health Care and Hospice Care
- Independent SNF/Consultant Practice
- Independent Medicare Part D Contracted Services
- Managed Care - Part D- Clinical Support
- PACE (Programs of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly)
- Pharmacist Networks
- Physician Office-Based Practice
- Social Work Agencies
- Standalone Independent Office Practice
- Transition of Care programs
- See the complete listing of practice settings profiled
Business Planning, Marketing and Practice Management:
- Marketing the Independent Consultant Practice
- Determining the Market Potential of a Practice Setting
- Writing a Business and Marketing Plan
- Sample Business Plan
- Practice Management
- Incorporating social media into your practice
- The value of networking
- How to make your practice senior-friendly
- An overview of practice management tools and software
- Tips on how to bill for your services
- Assessing the quality of your business services
- Using media opportunities to promote your services
Clinical Screening, Assessment and Documentation Tools include:
- Risk Screening and Clinical Assessment
- Conducting a Successful Patient Interview
- Measuring Quality and Outcomes
- Numerous Downloadable Forms:
- Form for Obtaining Patient Information Prior to Appointment
- Notice of Privacy Practices
- Daily Function Assessment
- Medication Risk Questionnaire
- Medication Management Review and Medication Assessment Worksheet
- Medication and Intervention Documentation
- Home Assessment of Fall Risk Factors
- Osteoporosis Risk Factor Assessment
- MedAdhIR-ST (MedAdhIR Screening Tool)
- Caregiver Self-Assessment Questionnaire
- See the complete listing of downloadable forms
Special Bonus Section- 101 Lessons Learned: Guidance From Successful Senior Care Pharmacists
Accompanying CD contains manual in PDF format:
- Includes convenient quick reference bookmarking of pages
- Provides extensive hyperlinking throughout to resources outside the manual
- Allows download to PC or laptop (for a more convenient alternative to carrying the manual)
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