title: Entrepreneurs: leading the way to pharmacy's future.
abstract: Entrepreneurship has always been central to the practice of pharmacy. Whether opening a new retail store, setting up a unique clinic practice, or researching a novel therapy, pharmacists are continually looking forward and following their visions of how pharmacy can be part of a new direction in health care. In 2011, the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) Foundation--itself the product of entrepreneurship--awarded grants to three entrepreneurs who are seeking to establish a fee-for-service component of their senior care pharmacy practices in the community. The grant recipients, while differing in their approaches, share the common goal of providing safe, effective, and cost-justified medication therapy and education to ambulatory older adults.
authors.affiliation: consultant pharmacist, Consultant Pharmacist, Greensboro, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Caren McHenry
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D016520:Entrepreneurship; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D054539:Medication Therapy Management; D010604:Pharmacy; D061108:Social Media