The leadership and staff of the ASCP Foundation are extremely grateful to all the generous donors and sponsors who contributed to the Foundation during ASCP's 37th Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Phoenix last month. Total contributions from individuals, ASCP chapters, and companies exceeded $168,000, making this an outstandingly successful annual meeting for the ASCP Foundation. 

Annual Meeting Donor Matching Program 

We extend special thanks to Innovatix for matching $7,500 in donations received during the annual meeting. This marks the seventh consecutive ASCP convention that Innovatix has matched donations made by conference attendees. 

The Wall of Caring 

Also for the seventh consecutive ASCP convention, the Johnson & Johnson Long Term Care Group donated $5,000 to the ASCP Foundation ~ $5 for every signature (up to 1,000) on the Signatures That Care wall located in the Johnson & Johnson Health Care Companies exhibit booth. We thank the Johnson & Johnson Long Term Care Group for its ongoing generosity as well as all the annual meeting attendees who signed the wall.

Phootloose in Phoenix

On the evening of November 16, approximately 140 friends of the ASCP Foundation gathered at the Phoenix Art Museum for Phootloose in Phoenix, a special event that netted approximately $100,000 for the Foundation. It was a festive evening of fantastic food, friendly conversation, and lively entertainment, and it honored the Foundation's 2006 Pacesetters donor club members and donors to The Tim Webster Endowment. 

We are pleased to acknowledge the following corporate sponsors for their generosity in support of this special evening:

Platinum Sponsors

• Abbott Laboratories
• sanofi-aventis 

Gold Sponsors

• AstraZeneca
• Forest Laboratories
• Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems

Silver Sponsors

• Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
• Eisai Inc.
• Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
• Pfizer Inc.
• Ross Products
• Teva Neuroscience
• Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc. 

Bronze Sponsor

•  QS/1 Data Systems 

The ASCP Foundation leadership and staff thank all of the individuals, ASCP chapters, and companies that supported the Foundation during the annual meeting. All donors will be recognized in an upcoming issue of The Consultant Pharmacist. 

If you were unable to attend the annual meeting in Phoenix but would like to make a year-end, tax-deductible contribution to the ASCP Foundation, please contact the Foundation at 703-739-1316, extension 144, or donate online at www.ascpfoundation.org/donation. All contributions received by December 31 will be included on the ASCP Foundation's honor roll of donors published in its 2006 Annual Report. We invite you to consider participation in our Pacesetters donor club, which provides special recognition for donors whose aggregate contributions in a single year total $500 or more.

If medication nonadherence were a disease, it could be termed an epidemic.

Medication nonadherence is responsible for: 

• 10% of older adult hospital admissions.
• 25% of nursing home admissions.
• 20% of preventable adverse drug events among older persons in the ambulatory setting.
• 125,000 deaths annually.
• $100 billion per year in healthcare costs in the U.S. 

www.AdultMeducation.com is a new website containing:

• Information on factors that influence medication adherence, barriers to adherence, and strategies to improve adherence.
• Tools to identify older adults at risk for medication nonadherence.
• Resources to improve medication adherence. 
• Materials to educate older adults about the importance of medication adherence. 
• Educational programs targeted at community-based service providers and health professionals. 
• Links to other useful web resources.

Materials on the website can be downloaded and printed for use in educational or training programs.

Adult Meducation was developed through a collaboration between the ASCP Foundation and the American Society on Aging. Funding was provided by Pfizer Inc.