The Medication Sessions are an opportunity for anyone in Somerset to discuss and learn about medication and related topics in a friendly, open forum facilitated by two tutors; an expert by experience and a pharmacist.
Different topics will be discussed in each session (e.g. side effects, herbal medicines) and participants are welcome to drop into individual sessions or to join for the entire course.
Ten separate sessions are planned, each around a different topic:
- Medication and side effects
- Food, drink, alcohol and medication
- Sleep hygiene and medication
- Stopping smoking and medication
- Alternative medication, herbal medication and illegal drugs
- Making changes to medication, starting, stopping and changing
- Medication information (a discussion of different sources of medication information that are available)
- Physical exercise and wellbeing – “healthy body and healthy mind!” and how medication may impact on this.
- The importance of routines/day planner – how does medication impact on this and how does this impact our medication?
- Individualised response and expectations – how there is no one single “perfect pathway/timeline” for changes with medication.