About This Website

The Purpose of This Site

The purpose of this site is to provide you with specific and detailed information to empower you in working with your health care provider to make decisions about your medications.

This website has been developed in partnership with the Canadian Deprescribing network at deprescribing.org. We have received no funding from any other sources.

People

Cara Tannenbaum

Cara Tannenbaum is a leader in cutting-edge geriatric research both nationally and internationally. She is dedicated to her clinical practice as a geriatrician, women’s health specialist and Director of the Geriatric Incontinence Clinic at the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, which fuels her vision for her patient-oriented research program.

Johanna Trimble

Johanna Trimble is a passionate patient advocate and a member of several local, national and international patient groups. Her focus is on working to prevent over-medication of the elderly and helping to improve home-based, team-delivered, coordinated, community care since our present over-reliance on residential and acute care is neither optimal, preferred or sustainable.

James McCormack

James McCormack is a Professor with the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His main area of research/scholarly activity is in the area of providing physicians and pharmacists with up to date, evidence based, practical information in the area of rational drug therapy.