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When Alzhehimer’s patients do not taking their medication, does it create barriers to delivering medical care to those suffering from the disease? A recently-funded grant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy will attempt to find out.

The Wisconsin Comprehensive Memory Program has authorized $50,000 for a study titled “Measuring Medication Adherence and Barriers to Medical Care in Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders.” The lead researcher on the grant will be Joshua M. Thorpe. He works at the Social and Administrative Sciences Division of the UW-Madison Pharmacy School, where he is an assistant professor.

The money is considered a “pilot grant,” to start the research, which is expected to take two years. Thorpe will be working with Betty Chewning, professor in Social and Administrative Sciences, and Carolyn Thorpe, research scientist in the Department of Population Health Sciences.

UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health works with the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center of Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in to form the Wisconsin Comprehensive Memory Program. The aim of the program is to bring together academic, clinical and research experts from the organizations under one roof.

Photo: Joshua Thorpe, UW-Madison

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