Join us for a special event featuring:

Dr. Donna Bartlett, a Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist licensed in Massachusetts. She received her BS in Pharmacy and her Doctor of Pharmacy degrees at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University-Boston. Currently, Donna is a Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University. Donna is a Clinical Pharmacist, spent many years in retail pharmacy, and teaches pharmacy students at a local hospital. Education expertise and areas of interest includes polypharmacy, deprescribing (appropriateness of medications, medication selection, guidance to avoid misuse of medication), geriatrics, medication access and affordability, falls prevention, adherence, and outreach.

Featured Highlights of MedStrong:

The MedStrong Workbook will help you and your physician safely reduce your medications—saving you money while improving your health through a 5-step process for optimizing and reducing the prescriptions and supplements you take each day.

Medications can keep us healthy, strong, and are often truly life-saving. Yet, as we age, the body naturally changes, along with its ability to absorb, metabolize, and eliminate medication.

Many “aging conditions” such as forgetfulness, confusion, insomnia, weakness, and falling can be linked directly to overprescribing of medication.

Enter MedStrong by Dr. Donna Bartlett, a 25-year practicing, board-certified geriatric pharmacist. Decades of witnessing the enormous suffering and compromised quality of life wreaked by overmedication has made her a leading authority on “deprescribing”—the evidence-based process of reducing, switching, or stopping medications.

Packed with forms, real-world examples, and clear guidance, based on extensive medical data and research, the MedStrong Workbook is designed to be a usable deprescribing tool for every healthcare consumer.
You’ll learn:
• The specific questions to ask of your healthcare provider in order to be a powerful advocate for yourself or your loved ones.

• The Medication Optimization Plan (MOP), the 5-step process for “cleaning- up” and optimizing your medication list—implemented with your healthcare provider.

• How to minimize the “Cascade Effect” as when an additional medication is prescribed to address the side effects of a current one.

Ready to boost the quality of your life by taking only the meds you need, and in the right doses for you? Let the MedStrong Workbook be your guide to becoming an educated healthcare consumer—one empowered to create a better, healthier you!