When Your Loved One's Confusion Might Be the Medications: A Geriatric Pharmacist Explains Polypha...

Dr. Remí Olukoya, PharmD sits down with Dr. Katie Cozart — board-certified geriatric pharmacist and the Resilient PharmD — to talk about the conversation most families never get to have: what polypharmacy is really doing to the aging brain. This episode covers anticholinergic burden, prescribing cascades, the Beers Criteria, deprescribing, and the specific medications every caregiver should know by name. Plus: what to say at the pharmacy counter, how to build a medication timeline that actually helps your doctor, and why silence is costing Black and Brown elders their cognitive function. The medication list is not a life sentence. This episode is your starting point. New episodes every Tuesday.