Adult Toolkit
Adult Toolkit
This toolkit aims to educate adults about safe medication practices and to encourage them to model these practices for others.
Getting Started
The Generation Rx Adult Toolkit offers helpful information about how to prevent medication misuse by educating adults on safe medication practices, and encouraging them to advocate for these practices in their homes and communities.
Ready to get started? Follow these three steps:
Step 1: Explore the key messages
featured in the GenRx Adult Toolkit
Step 2: Review our program recommendations
to help you plan an effective educational program.
Step 3: Browse the available toolkit resources
to build and deliver a Generation Rx program itinerary for adult audiences.
Step 1: Explore the key messages
The Generation Rx Adult Toolkit emphasizes our key messages, as well as explains how implementing these safe medication practices helps prevent medication misuse. These key messages include:
- Only use prescription medication as directed by a health professional
- Do not share or take someone else’s medication
- Keep your medications secure through safe storage and disposal practices
- Model safe medication practices
Step 2: Program Recommendations
Audience
This toolkit is intended to educate universal adult populations that fall between our University and Older Adult toolkits. Consider presenting this toolkit to parents through a school setting or to a broader adult audience through settings such as libraries, faith-based groups, or community service organizations.
Venue
We recommend venues with flexible furniture layouts to support small group discussions and active learning. Note the venue’s available technology, as the primary activity is formatted as a PPT presentation.
Group Size
The ideal group size is 25 or fewer participants, as it helps maximize interaction between facilitators and participants, which is key for implementing prevention education. The PPT presentation will adapt well to larger audiences though, if needed.
Step 3: Toolkit Resources
This toolkit includes one primary activity, a PowerPoint presentation designed to take about 30 minutes to complete. A video and supplemental handout resource complement the presentation.
A typical Generation Rx Adult program includes:
1 Opening
by making introductions to welcome participants; consider watching the Safe Medication Practices for Life Video
2 Delivering
3 Wrapping Up
through answering questions and providing resources
Primary Activity
Safe Medication Practices for Life presentation
Supplemental Handouts and Worksheets
Take Action Handout
Storage and Disposal Plan Worksheet
Sample Program Itinerary
With only one main activity in the toolkit, we suggest delivering the typical program itinerary outlined above.
Multiple touchpoints with a single adult audience may work well if targeting a specific adult population, such as adults that serve in a caregiver role. Below is a suggestion for delivering a series of three sequential programs.
- Program 1: Present the typical itinerary for an adult program, including watching the video and delivering the presentation, Safe Medication Practices for Life (PPT)
- Program 2: Help adults explore resources in the remaining toolkits that connect with their caregiver role. For example, explore the Elementary Toolkit or Teen Toolkit resources, helping adults familiarize themselves with ways to initiate conversations about medication safety at home, or learn how to adapt the key messages in an age-appropriate manner.
- Program 3: Continue these efforts by exploring the Older Adult Toolkit. Consider delivering one of the suggested GenRx programs for older adults and their caregivers; or, orient adults to the supplemental worksheets in the toolkit, such as our Medication Record Worksheet (PDF).
Use the Safe Medication Practices trivia game within the older adult toolkit as a conversation starter at tabling events. Print the Trivia Questions Guide (PDF), select questions relevant to your audience, and offer small prizes (e.g., pill organizers, magnifiers, pill splitters) for participation. This activity helps engage participants with key messages from the toolkit and provides an opportunity to share the Adult Take Action (PDF) handout as a reference.
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