NAPSI)-Learning ways to manage your medicines could help protect your health.
A new brochure by the Eldercare Locator and Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, outlines some simple steps to help make sound health care decisions concerning prescription drugs:
• Maintain a medicine record
• Share any change in side effects with your doctor
• Keep your health care professionals informed of all the medicines you are taking
• Find out about different options to pay for your medicines.
To learn more, request the brochure "Prescription Drug Options for Older Adults: Managing Your Medicines" at Eldercare Locator at (800) 677-1116 or www.eldercare.gov.
The Eldercare Locator is a free service of the U.S. Administration on Aging and is administered by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Managing Your Medicines
