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About this web site

The author of this web site is Claire de la Varre, MSIS, a graduate of The School of Library and Information Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The site was created in partial fulfillment of a Master's degree and was awarded Site of the Month in October 2000 by the Healthcentral.com Senior Health Newsletter.

Claire is a Research Associate at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research in Chapel Hill and is a Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology at the School of Education. She can be contacted by email at claire_delavarre@unc.edu.

If you need to cite this Web site you may use the following reference:

de la Varre, C. (2000). Polypharmacy in Older Adults: Information for people who take multiple medications, their families and caregivers. Retrieved on mm/dd/yyyy from http://altdirectory.com/Polypharmacy/index.html.


Disclaimer: The material in this polypharmacy web site is provided for purposes of disseminating information on polypharmacy for public benefit, education and information only. It should not replace or substitute for advice from your physician, pharmacist or other health care professionals.

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