Medication programme extended to more homes, home-care providers

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Medication programme extended to more homes,
home-care providers
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On Blogger Springhill Care Group
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A programme that gets pharmacists to help make
sure nursing home residents take their medicines
promptly and safely will be extended to more
homes and home-care providers.
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.It follows a successful one-year pilot at six
nursing homes in the last year.
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They are St Theresa's Home, Society for the Aged
Sick, Tai Pei Social Service, Sree Narayana
Mission Home for the Aged Sick, Jamiyah Nursing
Home and Moral Home for the Aged Sick.
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A spokesman for the Agency for Integrated Care
(AIC), an entity under the Ministry of Health
that oversees the long-term care of the elderly,
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., said it would start getting in touch with
other nursing homes and hoped to extend the
programme to all eventually.
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For the pilot, pharmacists from Guardian Health
Beauty, Watson's Personal Care Stores, NTUC Unity
Healthcare and the National Healthcare Group
visited the six homes and met individual
residents to sort out their medications.
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