THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia says the current national focus on aged care via the newly announced Royal Commission has highlighted the "strong rationale for requiring all regularly dispensed chronic disease medicines for aged care residents to be supplied in dose administration aids".
Writing in his fortnightly Forefront update yesterday, Guild Executive Director David Quilty said there should be appropriate financial recognition for pharmacies for the safe preparation and checking as well as for the maintaining of accurate medication charts.
He said Residential Medication Management Reviews undertaken by pharmacists should wherever possible be directed to medicines supply and focus on key known aged care issues such as medicine misadventure and overprescribing.
Quilty said the consumer directed model of community aged care support should fully recognise medication management and support as a "core service to enable ageing Australians to live independently in the community".
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