Senior Care Services
Medication Management
50+ Years - Locally
- Family
Owned
- Locally
- Family
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Medications play a crucial role in health management, from alleviating pain and reducing cholesterol to mitigating the impact of heart disease. However, they’re only effective if taken as prescribed. At Piedmont Home Care, we incorporate medication reminders into our standard service offerings. As medication schedules and instructions become more complex, or if the patient is dealing with Alzheimer’s or dementia, our Medication Management program could be a valuable resource. This program offers professional assistance to ensure your loved one is correctly following their medication schedule.
How It Works
Creating a Personalized Plan.
Our Director of Nursing will review your loved one’s medications with you and thr prescribing physicians.
Keeping Safety a Priority.
To ensure timely delivery, all medications will be transferred to our preferred pharmacy, delivered to our office and stored securely. At our offices, the medications are separated and put into weekly pill dispensers by our nursing staff. The medications are then brought to the home by the caregiver and kept in a safe place, locked if necessary, until time to administer them. The in-home lockbox that’s available adds one more level of safety. Since only caregivers know the code, there’s no worry of a client accidentally taking additional or incorrect doses.
Administering the Medications.
Every time a client takes their medication it is tracked on a Medication Administration Record (MAR), which lists the client’s name, their personal data, all allergies, the schedule of medications, dosages, how they should be administered and what each pill should look like. This ensures accurate delivery of medication with checks and balances in place, as well as a nurse review of all medications given.