| Knowledge is the Best Medicine |
This is a small booklet containing basic information on knowing your
medications and is also a record book in which learners can write such
things as doctor’s name, their health history, allergies, contact
information, and list their prescribed and non-prescribed medicines, etc.
These are found in many pharmacies or they can be ordered from www.canadapharma.org
by clicking on “Patient Pathways”, then “medication
record”. |
| The LaRue Medical Literacy Exercises |
These are literacy activities intended for adults with low literacy
skills created by Charles LaRue through the Minnesota Department of Education
and Minnesota Literacy Council. Activities on reading prescription labels,
labels on over-the-counter medication, and the warning labels found on
these products are available from www.mcedservices.com |
| Medicines and Older Adults |
This is a colorful brochure on precautions to take with medications
from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at www.fda.gov |
| Questions to Ask Your Doctor and Pharmacist: A Guide
for Seniors |
These are questions published for older Manitobans about medications,
and programs available in that province. It was developed by Manitoba
Health and Manitoba Seniors and Healthy Aging Secretariat. www.gov.mb.ca/shas/pdf/questions_05.pdf |