Johanna Trimble, http://www.isyourmomondrugs.com, is a passionate patient advocate and a World Health Organization Patient Safety Champion. Donna Davis is Co-chair of Patients for Patient Safety Canada, http://www.patientsforpatientsafety.ca/, and a mother, wife, and nurse. They describe their backgrounds, experience as family caregivers and work. They discuss challenges created by medications prescribed for elderly persons living in residential care facilities, and identify the most serious for elderly people, professional caregivers and family caregivers. They explain other challenges that a
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