Keynote Address

New Directions - Real Solutions: What Do Today's Seniors Want from Health Care and Consultant Pharmacy?

Wednesday, November 16

9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Every day, 10,000 people in the United States reach the age of 65. What do today's seniors want from health care and consultant pharmacy as they age in a variety of living and care settings? Are there insights from the Eden Alternative® and the Green House® Project that can inform how we move forward as a profession? Do evidence-based triggers for consultant pharmacist involvement work in settings such as geriatric emergency rooms?

To open the annual meeting, Dr. Bill Thomas, an international authority on geriatric medicine and eldercare, will share his wisdom about how aging is changing.

Bill Thomas, MD

President, Center for Growing and Becoming

Founder, The Eden Alternative® and Green House® Project

Town Hall Meeting

CMS Proposed Rule on Separation of the Consultant Pharmacist from the LTC Provider Pharmacy

Thursday, November 17

10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

This session will be a platform for ASCP members to learn more about recent proposed regulation from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to mandate separation between consultant pharmacists and long-term care dispensing pharmacies and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Participants will learn more about the proposed rule and ASCP's position on separation of consulting and dispensing services. Participants will also have an open forum to discuss the potential impact of the regulation on the profession and ASCP.

Peter P. Lamy Memorial Lecture

Findings from the Longevity Project

Discoveries for Health and Long Life from an Eight-Decade Study

Friday, November 18

9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

"In 1921, before most of us were born, a remarkable study began tracking the loves and lives of 1500 Americans from childhood to death. The study continues even today, with research teams led by Howard Friedman still keeping tabs on the remaining few who are still alive and analyzing massive amounts of data to establish what it is precisely about these 1500 individuals that led some to stay well and others to fall ill or die before their time. Incredibly, no one until now has chronicled and interpreted the findings from this monumental almost century-long project for the general public. Is longevity associated with being married, daily jogs, living with pets, or faith in God? At last, with lucid prose and rigorous yet crystal clear analysis, Professor Friedman ...(has) succeeded beautifully."

— Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness:

A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want

Don’t miss this year’s Lamy Lecture and this fascinating topic and speaker.

Howard S. Friedman, PhD

Distinguished Professor of Psychology

University of California, Riverside