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Reading Over the Counter Med Labels to Prevent Hospitalization from Harmful Interactions

March 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

This structured activity practices reading real over-the-counter medication labels and provides opportunities to assess the risk for various interactions that may be harmful or fatal.

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Refilling Medications

January 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

This therapy material works on skills required for refilling medications.

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Finding Medication Box Errors Set #3

December 31, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

The third in our series of locating med box errors, this activity challenges people to spot missing/extra pills given a set of prescription labels and pill shapes/colors.

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Guide for Reading and Understanding Prescription Medication Labels

November 30, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This material will help patients better understand the information they read on their prescription medication labels to ensure safety with medication management.

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Fall Risk and Medications

April 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource provides therapists with a list of medications associated with increased fall risk to use during chart review and medication management activities

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Parkinson’s Disease and Sense of Time

January 2, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This handout explains how Parkinson’s disease can disrupt the individual’s sense of time and this can impact accuracy with medication management and nutrition.

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Medication Management Evaluation

December 31, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This resource provides clinicians with evidence-based tools to use during treatment sessions and strategies to assist with increasing medication adherence.

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Medication Management with Low Vision

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This material provides information about resources now available from ideas created by the working group established by Section 904 of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act, education regarding how OT and ST can target medication management, and audio files/medication labels for practice.

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Medication Management Aids

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This handout provides a variety of aids including smart device applications, medication boxes, and pharmacy programs for medication administration that may help a person be more independent with medications.

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Finding Medication Box Errors Set #2

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.

For this activity, the patient will need to read the directions for each medication to know how often it should be taken. Then the patient will need to notice errors with the medication box which requires good attention and visual reasoning. This task could also be used for a visual scanning activity. Features realistic medication labels and 2 different pages with different challenges.

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