%0 Journal Article
%T Low
%A Antoinette B. Coe
%A Kelechi C. Ogbonna
%A Leticia R. Moczygemba
%A Pamela L. Parsons
%A Patricia W. Slattum
%A Paul E. Mazmanian
%J Journal of Pharmacy Practice
%@ 1531-1937
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0897190017734763
%X Older adults may be at risk of adverse outcomes after emergency department (ED) visits due to ineffective transitions of care. Semi-structured interviews were employed to identify and categorize reasons for ED use and problems that occur during transition from the ED back to home among 14 residents of low-income senior housing. Qualitative thematic and descriptive analyses were used. Ambulance use, timely ED use or a wait-and-see approach, and lack of health-care provider contact before ED visit were emergent themes. Delayed medication receipt, no current medication list, and medication knowledge gaps were identified. Lack of a personal health record, follow-up care instruction, and worsening symptoms education emerged as transition problems from ED to home. After an ED visit, education opportunities exist around seeing primary care providers for nonurgent conditions, follow-up care, medications, and worsening condition symptoms. Timely receipt of discharge medications and medication education may improve medication-related transition problems
%K discharge medication
%K older adults
%K senior housing
%K emergency department use
%K care transitions
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0897190017734763