What ASCP announced
On May 11, ASCP said Consonus Pharmacy and Siler Pharmacy became the first pharmacies recognized through its Age-Friendly Pharmacy program. The announcement is a marker of where senior-care pharmacy is moving: not just documenting a review, but organizing medication work around the practical needs of older adults and the care teams around them.
The recognition should be read carefully. It is an ASCP program, not a blanket endorsement of every product, facility, or pharmacist involved. It also does not make a software platform age-friendly on its own. A tool can support a disciplined process; it cannot supply the clinical judgment, communication, or accountability that a process requires.
Turn the announcement into a software question
For a consultant pharmacist, this is a useful time to inspect the gap between a good review and a good operating record. Can the system make a recommendation understandable to the recipient? Can the pharmacist see which items are still open? Can a facility leader see patterns without reading every individual report? Can a covering consultant understand why a previous decision was made?
Those questions are closer to a real buying decision than a generic feature checklist. The answers may point to structured recommendations, follow-up states, psychotropic workflows, audience-specific reporting, role controls, or a shared worklist—but only if the vendor can demonstrate the feature in the buyer's own use case.
A small practice can start without a new platform
Before buying anything, choose one recurring area of care—perhaps high-risk medications, anticholinergic burden, or a psychotropic follow-up process—and document the handoff from observation to recommendation to response. Notice where the workflow breaks. That break is a better requirement than a long wish list.
If the gap is reporting, the next software conversation should be about an actual facility packet. If the gap is follow-up, ask to see open, deferred, and closed recommendation states. If the gap is coverage, test a realistic handoff. A careful pilot tells you more than a polished demo.