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UB pharmacy and physical therapy students provide assistance to seniors to reduce falls
Published September 27, 2016 This content is archived.
The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the School of Public Health and Health Professions are collaborating to improve the health of local older adults through the new Interprofessional Falls Risk Reduction Program.
As part of National Falls Prevention Awareness Day (Sept. 22), six SPPS students and nine physical therapy students visited with at-risk adults at the Baptist Manor Senior Apartments and provided them with balance and strength assessments, evaluation of their medications for fall risk-increasing drugs and individualized action plans to be shared with their primary care physicians.
The program is spearheaded by Robert Wahler, PharmD, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice; Patricia Ohtake, PT, PhD, associate professor of rehabilitation science; and Peter Brody, PharmD, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice.