I. Medication Management Content:
Medication management for older patients is a core aspect of home healthcare. It encompasses a set of issues ranging from appropriateness of medications to adequacy of nurse review to assessment of barriers to medication adherence and facilitation of patients ability to take their prescribed medications.

The Geriatric Medication Management curriculum will address key issues on medication management, such as:

• Medication reconciliation
• Medication errors and adverse drug events
• Medication inappropriate for use by older adults
• Therapeutic duplication
• Non-adherence
• Unmet need for new or additional medication

II. Managing for Quality Content:
The CHAMP Geriatric Medication Management curriculum also addresses managing and teaching for improvement. Many homecare agencies focused on quality are beginning to ask frontline managers to increase their clinical oversight, requiring managers to play a key role in promoting quality improvement and strengthening best practices among staff. This requires that they support nurses and therapists in the implementation, measurement and integration of proven interventions into daily patient care.

In many cases, home healthcare managers are generally recruited from the ranks of field nurses and rarely have had the opportunity to receive management or QI training. The CHAMP Geriatric Medication Management course strengthens frontline nurse managers' knowledge and skills for improving geriatric care in the following two key areas:

• Team building, communication, and collaboration
• Practice-based learning, measurement and change