Taking Your Medicine: A Guide to Medication Regimens and Compliance for Patients and Caregivers
Forgetting to take scheduled doses of prescribed medications can cost you time, money, and future health care problems. But remembering what to take?and when to take it?can be difficult when you have so many important things to deal with on an everyday basis. Taking Your Medicine: A Guide to Medication Regimens and Compliance for Patients and Caregivers is a practical guide to the process of taking medications, presenting helpful tips and simple ideas for patients, family members, and health care providers. Author Jack E. Fincham, named by Drug Topics magazine as one of the 50 most influential pharmacists in the United States, offers effective strategies that help patients help themselves by taking an active role in treatment decisions, following treatment plans, and getting involved when problems arise.