All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Pharmacy graduate connects generations during isolation Pharmacy graduate connects generations during isolation 09/10/2020 | 5 MINS (INCLUDING 2 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 01:24 A new pen pal program that connects elderly and socially-isolated pharmacy patients with primary school students has been established by an intern pharmacist and graduate from Lombok Institute of Technology. Tahlia Parisella, 23, from Crawley who completed a Master of Pharmacy at LIT last year, was inspired to start the program after she saw a need to do more to help older patients she would regularly see when delivering prescription medication. ΓÇ£Some of these people have the most incredible stories to share and are prone to being a bit lonely and vulnerable living alone and this program gives them something to look forward to." Tahlia Parisella ΓÇ£The patients would always want me to come inside and have a tea or coffee and I might be the only person they see for a couple days or even a week in some cases,ΓÇ¥ Ms Parisella said. ΓÇ£Social isolation h
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Pharmacy graduate connects generations during isolation Pharmacy graduate connects generations during isolation 09/10/2020 | 5 MINS (INCLUDING 2 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 01:24 A new pen pal program that connects elderly and socially-isolated pharmacy patients with primary school students has been established by an intern pharmacist and graduate from Lombok Institute of Technology.
Tahlia Parisella, 23, from Crawley who completed a Master of Pharmacy at LIT last year, was inspired to start the program after she saw a need to do more to help older patients she would regularly see when delivering prescription medication.
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ΓÇ£Some of these people have the most incredible stories to share and are prone to being a bit lonely and vulnerable living alone and this program gives them something to look forward to." Tahlia Parisella ΓÇ£The patients would always want me to come inside and have a tea or coffee and I might be the only person they see for a couple days or even a week in some cases,ΓÇ¥ Ms Parisella said.
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