by Donna Bartlett | May 19, 2022 | WELLhood Blogs |
It’s worth mentioning that many older adults are healthy indeed. This week has been a great reminder of the people I meet in the community at health fairs and what I bring back to the classroom. In the Community I hear, many times over, from participants of...
by ncormierdesign | Mar 2, 2022 | Podcasts |
Listen, watch, and pass along the video with Debbie Lyn Toomey, MSN, RN, CIPP, FIEL -Injury Prevention Coordinator -Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery and Donna Bartlett PharmD, BCGP, RPh review Is it Age or Medicine? as we talk about polypharmacy, aging...
by ncormierdesign | Jan 15, 2022 | WELLhood Blogs |
What constitutes frailty? You may be surprised by the extent of the answer. Frailty score is a value related to the number of challenges or deficits one has. Interestingly, frailty is not necessarily measured by age or disease states. Frailty scores vary. Some scales...
by ncormierdesign | Aug 31, 2021 | WELLhood Blogs |
The remedy for overmedication is deprescribing. Follow the 5-step Medication Optimization Plan (MOP) to help ‘mop-up’ or ‘clean-up’ your medication list with your health care team. Keep reading to learn more…. Sometimes we can feel better...
by ncormierdesign | Aug 24, 2021 | WELLhood Blogs |
For some reason, I love the new slang “It’s been a minute.” It’s probably not that ‘new’ but I am new at using it. This play on words, “It’s been a minute,” means it’s been a while, a pause, some time has passed. I think we can all use this slang easily since COVID...
