Medications

Pharmacists offer crucial help to people with complex medication regimens.

As people get older, the number of medications they take often keeps growing. That can make for a tricky exercise in making sure they use the right prescribed medicine at the right time.

But they’re not alone in managing multiple medications. Pharmacists, and specifically consulting geriatric pharmacists, offer help in a number of ways.

At Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, pharmacotherapy professor Brian Gates (’99 PharmD) and associate professor Jeffrey Clark (’09 PharmD), both board-certified geriatric pharmacists, teach pharmacy students as well as practice as consulting pharmacists.

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