About the artist: Dottie Davis, a resident of Leisure World, a retirement community in Silver Spring, Maryland, rendered this cute watercolor titled “The Eyes have it.”

Profile: 1999-2000 ASCP President
Dianne E. Tobias, Vicki Meade
Meet ASCP’s next president, a hard-driving but affable “people person” who’s widely respected for her many accomplishments as an inventive teacher, creative clinical problem solver, and masterful team builder.

Senior Care Pharmacy ’99: ASCP 30th Annual Meeting and Exhibition
This year ASCP is marking its 30th anniversary with a redoubled commitment to aggressive advocacy on behalf of senior citizens and stepped-up initiatives to help extend consultant pharmacists’ reach far beyond their traditional nursing facility practice base. The programming for next month’s ASCP annual meeting in St. Louis is designed to provide pharmacists from all practice settings the information and resources they need to better serve seniors across the full spectrum of institutional and noninstitutional geriatric health care settings.

Senior Care Pharmacy ’99:
Abstracts of Posters and Contributed Papers

1999 ASCP Policy Statements and Guidelines

• Statement on Inclusion of Geriatrics in the Pharmacy School Curriculum
  
• Guidelines on Use of Psychotherapeutic Medications in Older Adults
  
• Guidelines on Assessing the Quality of Drug Regimem Review in Long-Term Care Facilities
  
• Statement on Medicare Payment for Outpatient Prescription Drugs