If your parents’ kitchen counter or, worse, bathroom medicine chest is crammed with pill bottles — old, new, rarely used, barely remembered, emptied and never refilled — a new brochure from Consumers Union and the Eldercare Locator, a service of the United States Administration on Aging, might prove useful.
“Prescription Drug Options for Older Adults: Managing Your Medicines” offers suggestions for tracking and maintaining elders’ complicated drug regimens. The timing isn’t incidental; the idea is that family members home for holiday visits will talk to their parents about their multiple medications.
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