The Senior Care Pharmacist Podcast

Podcast host Kelly Ulen interviews corresponding author Elias Chahine to discuss the latest advances in antiretroviral therapy (ART) research that  investigates if there were differences in the safety and effectiveness of ART in White, Black, and Hispanic older people living with HIV. This podcast was filmed in November 2023 and coincides to the article of the same name published by Chahine and colleagues in the November issue of The Senior Care Pharmacist.

Podcast host, Kate Cozart, interviews Dr. Nicole Early to discuss the latest COPD guideline updates and the impact of senior care pharmacists on the management of COPD.

Tough times don't last, tough people do. How to reduce 30 day readmissions and improve care for older adults. Learn how to create more geriatric pharmacist positions. Join podcast host, Kelly Ulen, as she interviews Jaylan Hayes Yuksel about these great topics.

Podcast host, Kate Cozart, interviews Dr. Katie Boyd to discuss a case study involving concomitant use of CBD oil and antiplatelets. Guest host appearance by Hannah Holloway, PharmD Candidate

Join host, Donna Bartlett, PharmD, BGCP, as she interviews Patrick Russell, MD and Arduino Mangoni, FRACP regarding their two-part series, Rational Prescribing and Deprescribing of Antihypertensives Medications in Older Adults found in the March and April editions of TSCP Journal. Learn about the history of studies and sort out best practices for your patients.

Podcast host, Dr. Kelly Ulen, interviews Dr. Chris Alderman, Editor-In-Chief of The Senior Care Pharmacist journal. Dr. Alderman shares his top 10 tips to getting published. If you have thought about getting published, but don't know where to start, this is the podcast to listen to!

Podcast host, Donna Bartlett, interviews Dr. Noll Campbell, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Purdue University and has an appointment with Indiana University Center for Aging Research about his guest editorial in January's 2023 TSCP. Dr. Noll discusses his background in geriatrics and experiences in deprescribing including pathways and barriers to deprescribing.  

New podcast hosts interview with Associate Editor, Demetra Antimisiaris, on her Guest Editorial for November on The Senior Care Pharmacist "Looking Forward." 

Drs. Ariane Guthrie and Dawn Knudsen Gerber discuss reporting trends of bisphosphonate-associated atypical fractures relative to increasing awareness across medical and lay communities with TSCP podcast hosts DeLon Canterbury and Kelly Ulen.

Podcast hosts Kelly Ulen and Donna Bartlett interview Drs. Krishnamurthy and Woodall regarding the evaluation of older patients' perceptions when having priorities identification conversations with a pharmacist, and identifying the value domains represented by patients' health outcome goals.

New podcast host, DeLon Canterbury, interviews LIVE at the 2022 Annual Meeting with Author Elizabeth Pogge, on her Geriatric Pharmacotherapy Case Series for November on The Senior Care Pharmacist "Geriatric Pharmacotherapy Case Series: Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension."

Host, Dr. Donna Bartlett, speaks with Dr. Daniel Mansour, Dr. Eric Hoover, Dr. Ronna Hertzano, and Dr. Nicole Brandt regarding a case study addressing hearing health through interprofessional collaboration. Listen to learn more.

Host, Dr. Donna Bartlett, speaks with Dr. Regina Ginzburg regarding a case study addressing medication issues and therapeutic inertia. Listen to this case about polypharmacy and deprescribing and the surprising number of recommendations.

Host, Amie Blaszczyk, speaks with Dr. Taylor Naberhaus about the outcomes of pharmacist-completed aMRRs. Listen to learn more.

Host, Donna Bartlett, speaks with Dr. Marwa Noureldin regarding the caregivers quest for medication information. The results may surprise you. Listen to learn more. 

Host, Donna Bartlett, speaks with Dr. Makayla Nelson on using the VIONE tool to identify medications for deprescribing. Listen in on how this tool was used in a primary care setting.

This is a patient case exploring the importance of evaluating herbal and dietary supplements and how they may impact drug-drug and drug-gene implications based on pharmacogenomics test results. Even though herbal supplements are considered natural by many patients, which is often the reason for starting them, herbal supplements may still be metabolized by the same pathways as other medications, potentially contributing to drug-drug, drug-herb, and drug-gene interactions, and therefore, potentially impacting a patient's response to medications.

Delirium is a syndrome that can arise from many causes or underlying conditions, and though it has been reported in younger patients, it is more prevalent in older people, though it can occur in other age groups as well. Identifying delirium is challenging in older people because of the coexistence of underlying dementia or depression, which may further complicate the presentation. Drug-induced delirium is one of the major causes of delirium, and evaluation of this potential cause or contribution is an important component of the evaluation process, since it can lead to poor patient outcomes. Part one of this three part series reviewed the epidemiology, pathophysiology, evaluation, diagnostic process, and causes of delirium in older people, with a focus on the pharmacological causes. Part two of this series continues to review drugs and drug classes that can cause or contribute to delirium in older people.

Inpatient falls continue to have detrimental effects on patient care and recovery. Because controllable and uncontrollable factors impact fall rates, predicting which patients are at the greatest risk can be challenging. One method includes the incorporation of student learners to help identify which patients are at the greatest risk for falls.

Donna Bartlett, our host, has a conversation with Dr. Stella Ye regarding research on deprescribing in an Acute Care for the Elderly (ACE) Unit. 

Donna Bartlett, our host, has a conversation with Dr. Nicole Ryba on insomnia, z-drugs, falls, and deprescribing.

Host Donna Bartlett interviews author Janet Sluggett on her journal article for the October 2020 issue of The Senior Care Pharmacist.

Interview with Shannon Rice on her article, "Anticholinergic Cognitive Burden in Older People Over Acute Admission," featured in The Senior Care Pharmacist journal.

Interview with current and former residents in PGY2 geriatrics residencies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Interview with Dr. Danielle Fixen on her case study of Cannabis and BPSD.

Senior Care Pharmacist Podcast host Amie Blaszczyk interviews editor in chief of The Senior Care Pharmacist, Dr. Chris Alderman, about his editorial re: the "other pandemic" (diabetes).

Podcast host Amie Blaszczyk interviews author Dr. Patrick Nguyen on his article "Impact of Pharmacist Interventions in an Ambulatory Geriatric Care Clinic: The IMPACC Study" published in The Senior Care Pharmacist. 

Senior Care Pharmacy Podcast host Donna Bartlett talks to author Scott Pearson about his article, Pharmacist-Led Transition of Care Pilot Targeting Older People After Emergency Department Discharge, in the June 2020 issue of The Senior Care Pharmacist.

ASCP Host Donna Bartlett interviews author Kyle Frasier about his recent article in The Senior Care Pharmacist. During the comprehensive medication review, pharmacists determined the patient had inadvertently purchased an acetaminophen/diphenhydramine combination medication, rather than his usual acetaminophen. Use of acetaminophen/diphenhydramine for back pain without insomnia may contribute to falls. Pharmacists contacted the prescribing physician to obtain a prescription for acetaminophen. By asking the local pharmacy to dispense acetaminophen as a prescription, the risk to the patient of inadvertently purchasing an inappropriate product is reduced. 

Host Amie Taggart Blaszczyk, Pharm.D., BCGP, BCPS, FASCP interviews Dr. Creaque V Charles about their article in the February 2020 issue of The Senior Care Pharmacist, Highlights From the 2019 AGS Beers Criteria® Updates. The AGS Beers Criteria® is intended to improve and optimize the care of the geriatric population. It serves as a guide to minimize older adults' exposure to PIMs whenever possible. As with previously published updates to the AGS Beers Criteria®, the 2019 update outlines the following: recommendations, rationale, and quality of the recommendations, as well as the strength of the recommendations. 

Jeannette Wick  Donna Bartlett    Part of ASCP's new journal-to-life-podcast, The Senior Care Pharmacist Podcast, co-host Donna Bartlett interviews Jeannette Wick about addressing the social determinants of health—poverty, food insecurity, health literacy, neighborhoods, and the environment and why they are essential if we are to improve individuals' overall health. 

Michael J Schuh  Donna Bartlett, PharmD, BCGP, RPh  The objective of this manuscript is to review an ambulatory care pharmacist service that evolved into a pharmacotherapy, polypharmacy service with multiple sub-models. The practice is located in a multi- specialty, tertiary care, destination medical clinic in Florida. Ambulatory care pharmacist services have evolved to demand expertise in multiple, specialized areas to address the more complex medical issues of the polypharmacy patient. Many of these patients are older than 65 years old with broad medical care needs. Growth and diversification of ambulatory care pharmacist services to evaluate the multitude of sophisticated medications, the continued direct-to-consumer commercialization and growth of dietary supplements, implementation of pharmacogenomic testing, in addition to new advances in clinical and laboratory technologies makes polypharmacy a viable pharmacist clinical specialty. With the broad knowledge base needed for these patients, a polypharmacy pharmacist may function as a pharmacology trouble shoot expert. 

Chris Alderman, B Pharm, PhD, FASCP, FSHP, BCGP, BCPP  Amie Taggart Blaszczyk, Pharm.D., BCGP, BCPS, FASCP  In this inaugural podcast, one of our hosts, Amie Taggart Blaszczyk, Pharm.D., BCGP, BCPS, FASCP, interviews the journal's new editor-in-chief, Chris Alderman about its plans for 2020. The Senior Care Pharmacist Podcast is an audio podcast from ASCP that interviews authors from ASCP's award-winning journal, The Senior Care Pharmacist, about their recent article.