Team Alice helps older adults protect themselves from medication harm

BUFFALO, N.Y. — If you or a loved one is prescribed a medication, you want to make sure it won’t hurt you. The Team Alice initiative at the University at Buffalo is named after a woman who lost her life in 2009 after she was prescribed a medication she shouldn’t have been given.

Alice Brennan’s daughter wants to make sure what happened to her mom doesn’t happen to anyone else.

“My mother was a very active, very independent, very whimsical 88-year-old,” said Mary Brennan-Taylor, Team Alice’s co-founder…

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