Aging
Dovetail Health & Senior Living Residences Launch Medication Management Pilot for Aging Adults
Published in Hospital Business Week, April 29th, 2007
Dovetail Health, a new company dedicated to helping aging Americans live independently as long as possible by personally monitoring and managing their health and medication needs, proudly announces a new partnership with Senior Living Residences, LLC (SLR) to launch the first-of-its-kind pilot program that evaluates the medication status of seniors who reside in or plan to move in to assisted living communities.
Up to 30 percent of all hospitalizations among older adults can be attributed to medication mismanagement. Further analysis showed that among these hospital admissions, 88 percent of the adverse reactions in the aging population were preventable.
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