Jones Healthcare Group is honoured to be nominated for two PAC Global Awards for its FlexRx™ One blister pack.

We know blister pack medication adherence packaging makes it easier for people to manage prescriptions – the research shows it. But what else can blister packs offer when it comes to medication and patient safety? Let’s explore the important features of these tools in more detail.

Exciting, new developments in healthcare are on the horizon. They’ll impact everything from how we take prescription medications to the environment and caregiving. Innovation is being driven in part by the rising cost of drugs, an aging population of boomers and a shortage of long-term care facilities to accommodate them.

Over the last two years, the number of people experiencing depression and anxiety has increased by 25 per cent, according to the World Health Organization. And about one in four Americans suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder.

When’s the last time you had a chat with your pharmacist? If you’re like many Americans, it has been a while. That’s unfortunate because pharmacists are invaluable resources and play important roles in your personal healthcare team, alongside doctors, nurses and other professionals.

Ensuring patients take their medications correctly is an age-old problem for doctors and pharmacists. Healthcare professionals understand that prescription drugs must be taken as recommended – at minimum, 80 per cent of the time to get adequate therapeutic benefits.

Caregivers play an essential role in the United States. There are 34.2 million Americans who have provided unpaid support to an adult over the age of 50 in the last year, according to the National Alliance of Caregiving.

When managing chronic conditions, such as hypertension and diabetes, patients do not take medications properly 50 per cent of the time, which increases the possibility of complications and worsening health.

Bio-PET. It’s a product we’ve been talking about a lot at Jones Healthcare Group, since we started transitioning our medication adherence packaging to this more sustainable bio-based plastic

Pharmacists are trained to spot the signs of someone struggling to take their prescribed medications, taking them as directed is a chronic problem in Canada and worldwide. Medication adherence offers a practical solution to stay on track.

While remaining at home as long as possible is the goal for many, it takes planning to enable aging at home. For the Rusland family, it was a group effort to ensure Barb could maintain her independence.

As she ended their phone calls, Santina Nato would always ask her mother, Carmela, whether she had taken all of her medications for the day. It was a constant worry since the 85-year-old from Toronto was juggling 12 different oral medications to manage various chronic conditions, including type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol.