Project 460067

The goal of the current proposal is to bring together a team of researchers, physicians, pharmacists, health sector administrators and persons with memory disorders and their care-partners to brain-storm research questions about medication use in memory disorders. We will first ask the participants to tell stories about their good and bad experiences with medications. Then we will ask participants to generate and prioritize 5 questions they think are important about researching medication use and reviewing medications in memory disorders. Specifically, the team will generate and prioritize questions about how well medication reviews work in finding and solving important medication-related problems in memory disorders. By forming a team that represents not only physicians and pharmacists but also persons with dementia and their care-partners to generate the research questions, we will design a study that asks questions that are important to clinicians and knowledge-users. We will also ask the participants to identify what they believe will facilitate and what challenges they expect to encounter with doing such a study to help researchers plan for the study in the future. The findings of the study will inform what aspects of medication reviews are important and help us improve the quality of the medication reviews, ultimately improving medication use, and care for persons with memory disorders.