Team Alice University at Buffalo

12/10/2025

The holidays are joyful but can be stressful! Prioritize your health with simple tips: stay active, eat mindfully, manage stress, and take medications safely. A little planning goes a long way for a healthy season. 🎄✨

We know the holidays can be challenging for many older adults by ushering in a heightened sense of loss, stress, and depression. Follow this advice from Team Alice, a group dedicated to helping prevent medication harm to older adults and named for Alice Brennan, a vibrant 88-year-old who died due to...

12/03/2025

Here's a great reference sheet on how the Erie County Department for the Aging an assist our senior community.

12/02/2025

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/buffalo/news/2025/11/21/co-founder-of-team-alice-shares-her-story-about-the-sandwich-generation-at-ub

A forum at University at Buffalo's Jacob School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences helped create awareness and offer access to resources.

11/21/2025

11/20/2025

YELLOW DOT is a free program designed to help first responders provide life-saving medical attention during the first "golden hour" after a crash or emergency. A Yellow Dot on the driver's-side rear window of your vehicle will alert first responders that vital medical information is stored in the glove compartment.

For a Yellow Dot Kit mailed to your home, visit https://nysheriffs.org/yellowdot/, contact the Niagara County Sheriff's Office Community Services Division at (716)438-3310, or check with your local Town Hall for availability.

11/04/2025

A hospital visit for something routine turned tragic for one Western New York woman — and her daughter has spent years making sure no one else faces the same fate.

11/04/2025

Chances are, you know someone who provides care to another person. It might even be you providing the care.

💡There are 63 million caregivers in the United States.
💫A quarter of adults in the U.S. are unpaid or family caregivers.
❤️ Caregivers are the lifeblood of our communities.

November is National Family Caregivers Month. To learn more and to honor the hard work of caregiving, check out this report from the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP:

🔗 https://www.caregivingintheus.org/?fbclid=IwY2xjawN1iw5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFleDdrS09EcGdYU1U3cFdkAR4q7ZBv3IBLWkrlJjDRIy0rvPTzpLoInF87wQk5mwhaMKXPfEVWgyfh5H-DSQ_aem_TaWTtRk8HoUPLabBKrxLTw

10/24/2025

DEA's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is tomorrow, Saturday, October 25th, from 10:00am until 2:00pm. NCSO will be at Lockport Memorial Hospital for those that wish to bring their unused, unwanted, or expired medication for safe disposal.

10/21/2025

We're excited to be participating in the New York StateWide Senior Action Council Health and Resource Fair this Friday from 10 AM -12:30 PM, alongside Primary Care Research Institute - University at Buffalo.

FREE admission, lunch provided, but registration is required. Sign up today!

10/16/2025

At last week’s Sandwich Generation Symposium, hosted by the Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences - University at Buffalo, Team Alice co-lead Robert Wahler, PharmD, discussed with BTPM NPR the hidden risks of medication use in older adults.

https://www.btpm.org/local/2025-10-15/disabilities-beat-the-hidden-danger-of-medication-errors-how-to-avoid-them



University at Buffalo Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Primary Care Research Institute - University at Buffalo

Team Alice focuses on reducing what many people would call “medication errors,” especially in older adults. Here’s how those mistakes happen and how to reduce your risk.

10/14/2025

Are you part of the 'Sandwich Generation?' A growing number of adults are facing the reality of taking care of their parents and children. Here's what experts say: