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Finding a pharmacy

Search for pharmacies near you, keep the ones you use, and see what is known about each. What it can tell you about cost, and what it cannot.

Written by Brian Fluhr

To find a pharmacy, sign in first.

This page explains how it works. The tool itself is inside your SeniorThrive account.

Pharmacy Finder helps you find a pharmacy close to home, and keep track of the ones you actually use.

Where to find it

It sits with your medicines, under My Health.

Searching

The page looks for pharmacies near you and shows what it finds as a list of cards, with a count at the top.

If it cannot work out where you are, it says so and searches a default location instead, so you still get results. You will see it tell you plainly when that has happened rather than quietly showing you the wrong town.

What each card tells you

Whatever is publicly known about that pharmacy: the address and phone number, the website, opening hours and whether it is open now, a star rating and how many reviews it came from, and whether the premises are wheelchair accessible.

That accessibility line is worth a look before a first visit. It is the sort of thing that is much better to know in advance than to discover at the door.

What it cannot tell you about cost

This is the part to be clear about.

Some cards carry a rough price level, the kind of general band a business listing carries. That is a description of the shop, not of your prescription.

SeniorThrive cannot tell you what a particular medicine will cost at a particular pharmacy. It does not hold drug prices, it does not know your insurance, and it cannot compare what you would pay at one counter versus another.

For that, ring the pharmacy and ask, with the medicine name and dose in front of you. Prices for the same prescription genuinely do vary between pharmacies, so the call is often worth making, but the answer comes from them rather than from here.

Keeping the ones you use

You can save a pharmacy so it stays on your list, and add one by hand if the one you use does not turn up in a search.

Saving the pharmacy that fills your prescriptions is the useful bit. It connects to the refill side of My Medicines, so the place and the prescription sit together instead of in two different corners of your memory.

If you use more than one

Plenty of people do. A local one for everyday prescriptions and a bigger one for anything unusual is a common arrangement.

Both can live on your list, and having them written down is genuinely useful for anyone helping you, especially in a week when you are not well enough to explain which is which.

What it does not do

It does not order anything, transfer a prescription, or contact a pharmacy for you. Nothing is sent and nobody is notified.

It also does not recommend one pharmacy over another. What you see is what is published about each, gathered in one place, with the choice left to you.

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