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Journal of Pharmacology and Therapeutic Research
Volume 1 Issue 1
Clinical Pharmacy 2017
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December 07-09, 2017 | Rome, Italy
7
th
World Congress on
Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice
Inter-professional team approach to geriatric
care
Janice Hoffman, Anna Yeung
and
Mary Hudson-McKinney
Western University of Health Sciences, USA
A
ccording to the 2015 World Health Organization, on
average, people around the world are living longer.
Thirty percent of the Japanese population are aged 65
years and over. In the United States of America alone,
over 10,000 people turn 65 every day, which translates
into one person every eight seconds. Máire Geoghegan-
Quinn, the former European Commissioner for Research,
Innovation and Science, stated that by 2020 a quarter of
the population of Europe will be 60 years or older. With the
worldwide ageing population, the importance of optimizing
health care delivery to seniors must be urgently addressed.
With this shift of focus to chronic diseases of aging,
appropriate medication use becomes a top priority. This
presentation will review the specific pharmacokinetic and
pharmacodynamics changes that accompany the aging
process as well as the role of the pharmacist within an
interdisciplinary geriatric team to improve the effectiveness
and efficiency of the provision of care for the elderly. Upon
completion of this workshop, participants will have gain a
working knowledge of how to provide inter-professional
team-based care for the aged across the continuum of
care levels.
Biography
Janice Hoffman is an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Western
University of Health Sciences in Pomona California, USA. She is a Certified
Geriatric Pharmacist and a Fellow of the American Society of Consultant
Pharmacists (ASCP). She has received her Doctorate (PharmD) from the
University of Southern California and completed her Clinical/Administrative
Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice with an emphasis in Geriatrics Residency at the
University of Maryland at Baltimore. Professionally, she has received accolades
as the Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy (CCGP), Excellence
in Geriatric Practice Award recipient. Currently, she practices at Los Angeles
Jewish Home geriatric-psychiatric unit.
jhoffman@westernu.eduJanice Hoffman et al., J Pharmacol Ther Res 2017