Overview:

UCLA Medical Center staff and professors interact with a number of elderly patients focusing on:

• Correct procedures for taking a drug history from an elderly client
• Effects of physiologic changes of aging on drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion
• Principles of prescribing for the elderly with regard to drug/drug interactions, drug/food interactions, common drugs prescribed to elderly patients and problematic drugs.
• OBRA regulations, including Resident Rights, self administration of drugs, antipsychotics and drug monitoring.