Declines in the numbers of pharmacies pose a particular threat to older adults, who take more medications than younger people do. Nearly 90 percent of seniors reported taking a prescription drug last year, and almost 60 percent took four or more, according to an analysis by KFF, a health research organization. Moreover, “pharmacies don’t just dispense medications,” said Dr. G. Caleb Alexander, an internist and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University and a co-author of the Health Affairs study. “They deliver other services.”
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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/health/drugstore-closures-seniors.html