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Ron Finley, BS Pharm, RPh
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How to Take Your Parents' Medication History
By Ron Finley
It is very important all of the health care professionals prescribing medications for your parents be aware of any and all of the drugs they take and any drugs/medications to which they are allergic.
Here is a medication history form they can complete (or you can complete it for them) prior to seeing a new health care provider, or to update their current health care professionals as to all of the medications and/or social drugs such as alcohol, they are taking.
Keeping track of their medications may prevent an annoying or even serious adverse drug reaction.
Ron Finley
R. Ronald (Ron) Finley, BS Pharm, RPh recently retired, after 28 years as a lecturer for the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Pharmacy. Ron continues as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the School of Pharmacy and as Clinical Pharmacist in Neurology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center-Alzheimer’s Research Center, where he works closely with neurologists and psychiatrists. Mr. Finley is also a Consultant Pharmacist for the Institute on Aging at the Alzheimer’s Day Care Center in San Francisco and a consultant to the Parkinson’s Disease Institute. He received his pharmacy degree from St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 1959.
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