The mission of the program is to sensitize the elderly about how they could get access to their medicine. The primary goal is to ensure that older adults are living well by getting access to their medicines when they want them depending on their condition

1. ACCESS TO MEDICINE FOR THE
ELDERLY
By: Anishka Smart

2. PROGRAM INFORMATION:
Mission: The central mission of this program is to prevent and
control disease outbreaks and locally endemic diseases, prevent non-
communicable illnesses, and offer adequate education and
communication regarding prevailing health issues such as major risks
and their prevention and control. This program will evaluate the issues
and challenges affecting access to medicine among the American
elderly population.
Population: Manchester, East Hartford and Hartford Area.
Goals: The primary goal is to ensure that older adults are
living well by getting access to their medicines when they
want them depending on their condition.

3. PROGRAM FACTOR:
Factor Example
Political Government Policy
Economic Affordability of the drugs
Social Family support
Technology Drug access through technological platforms
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The economic factor that affects the elderly includes the
affordability of the drugs they need for their health. Social
factors include the family support they require from their
loved ones to maintain good health. The technological
factors include the current means of digitally accessing care
by the elderly. Most health organizations have digitalized
access to drugs through different platforms, and the elderly
are bound to get affected by such factors.

4. CULTURE AND DIVERSITY:
Culture and diversity would play a role in providing access
to medicines to the elderly. For example, the
elderly are diverse, meaning there could be whites,
blacks, and Latinos, among others (Van Hoa et al., 2020).
Each group may have its own culture regarding the use of
drugs. This is a significant issue, especially for the elderly
who still hold tight to their cultures.

5. ORGANIZATION THEORY AND
DESIGN
• The human service program to get designed is
access to medicine among the elderly. The
applicable theory for the human service
program is the administrative approach theory
under classical organizational theory.
• Distinct activities will be implemented for the
human service program in line with the
administrative theory. Different departments
will be formed and given clear direction of their
roles and responsibilities for the activities set to
be accomplished.
• work will be vital in accomplishing
the objectives of the established program. To
ensure efficient and well-coordinated work,
each department will have a supervisor. The
person in charge will be required to assign tasks
to each individual and be accountable to the
administrators if work is not done.
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6. JOBS AND DUTIES:
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• Nurse- ensuring that the elderly patients
have taken medications as
recommended. For instance, the nurse
will be required to monitor
the adherence to medication regimens
and completion of medicines by elderly
patients.
• Several medical jobs and roles will be
required to implement this program.
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7. LINE-ITEM BUDGET:
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The estimated costs of this program are as follows.
1. Personnel costs: $500,000
2. Non-consultant costs: $100,000
3. Non-personnel costs: $50,000
4. Total costs: $650,000.
The above estimates are not actual calculations and are vulnerable to change as the program progresses. Due to this, the Hr.
Department has set aside emergency funds of $ 150000. With this budgetary plan in place, we hope and believe that the
primary aim of reaching out to as many elderly as possible will be met at the end of the year.

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INFORMATION SYSTEM:
• Information System is aimed at
improving access to medicine for older
adult patients.
• Measuring accomplishment of
objectives will be done with different
methods. These include measurements
of clinical outcomes of the elderly
patients,
• dose counts,
• electronic monitoring of medication
administration
• adherence or compliance to
medication.
• analyzing pharmacy records to see
whether patients have been able to
obtain the necessary medicines from
there.
• use of a survey instrument

9. PROGRAM EVALUATION
 I plan to use a face-to-face survey, a qualitative research method, to access
the issues and challenges affecting access to medicine among the American
elderly population.
• The face-to-face survey involves meeting the participants, reading
interview questions, and recording their responses through
computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) software.
• he face-face method is the most convenient method when dealing
with the elderly. Older people experience physical issues, such as
visual impairment and memory loss; hence the method provides
an opportunity for interviewers to explain and clarify questions

10. CONCLUSION:
Access to quality, effective, safe, and affordable essential vaccines and
medicines is central to universal health coverage. The National Policy of
the Elderly accentuates that the availability of an operational disability
points to the necessity for caregiving among the elderly regardless of the
disability origin.
Access to medicine among the elderly constitutes essential health
technologies with numerous functions, including preventing injuries,
promoting, rehabilitation, and recovery of health and diagnosis.
This program seeks to address the growing cases of inadequate, quality,
and effective medicine among the elderly with various illnesses such as
cancer, arthritis, diabetes, stroke, and chronic cancer, among others.
Notably, this program will particularly focus on the American elderly
population and the numerous diseases that come with old age.
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11. WORK CITED
• Barros, D. S. L., Silva, D. L. M. D., & Leite, S. N. (2019). Access
and use of medicines by elderly individuals with dementia. Brazilian
Journal of Pharmaceutical
Sciences, 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s2175-97902019000117539
• Anghel, L. A., Farcas, A. M., & Oprean, R. N. (2019). An overview of
the common methods used to measure treatment
adherence. Medicine and pharmacy reports, 92(2), 117–
122. https://doi.org/10.15386/mpr-1201
• Foucault Welles, B., Sun, H., & Miller, P. V. (2022). Nonverbal
Behavior in Face-to-Face Survey Interviews: An Analysis of Interviewer
Behavior and Adequate Responding. Field Methods, 34(1), 52-68.
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12. THANK YOU
Anishka Smart