Jeannette Yeznach Wick, a longtime
writer for Pharmacy Times,
is the author of Pharmacy
Practice in an Aging Society,
recently published by
Pharmaceutical Products Press,
an imprint of Haworth Press Inc.
Accompanied by an Instructor's
Manual, the book includes chapters
on the graying landscape,
the challenge of disease in the
elderly, communicating with
elders, and exercise and aging.
Other topics covered are addiction,
elder abuse, sexuality,
stress, lost minds, and death,
the great equalizer.
In the book's Foreword, Dorothy
L. Smith, PharmD, writes that
the author "confronts the different
types of problems that people
have with their medications
as they age and recommends
ways that pharmacists can provide
better pharmaceutical care.
She is very sensitive to the ethical
and communication needs of
the elderly and provides pharmacists
with insightful techniques
that can be used so elderly
patients will feel respected
but at the same time be given
the medication information and
care they need."