Your Dell Pharmacy Team: Asthma and COPD Expertise to Help You Breathe Easier
Asthma and COPD
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are lifelong conditions that can impact the everyday activities that others take for granted. Things like climbing stairs. Walking the dog. Playing summer sports. Even socializing with friends and family.
Controlling the disease... so it doesn't control you.
Asthma and COPD must be monitored and controlled over a lifetime. With the advice and encouragement of a Dell pharmacist to boost your confidence, you will understand more about the disease and will be able to manage your symptoms better.
Visit your neighbourhood store to benefit from the overall knowledge of your local Dell Pharmacy team or access the specific expertise of Anna Romano, Dell pharmacist and Certified Respiratory Educator, at our Brantford store.
Our COPD and asthma education
Education is the key to Dell Pharmacy's success with asthma and COPD patients, whether it comes from a conversation with your pharmacist or a one-on-one consultation at an asthma and COPD clinic.
If you have asthma, our asthma education programs will help you:
- learn about the condition and how to manage it
- avoid and control asthma triggers
- feel confident about asthma treatments
- use your medication properly
- monitor your progress, including assessing your symptoms and your response to medication
- follow a personalized action plan.
If you have COPD, our pharmacists can help you:
- learn about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- find answers to your questions about COPD treatments
- relieve symptoms by properly using medications
- prevent and minimize complications
- quit smoking
- stay active and eat well.
Meet Your Certified Respiratory Educator (CRE)
Certified Respiratory Educator, Anna Romano, is passionate about providing tools and information to patients across southern Ontario.
Anna Romano is a Dell pharmacist and respiratory educator certified by the Canadian Network for Asthma Care.
Anna is passionate about giving her patients the tools and know-how to breathe easy. Her one-on-one asthma and COPD clinics, held at Dell Pharmacy stores across southern Ontario, are high quality respiratory therapy programs.
Patients learn the basics of the disease, proper use of medications, ways to minimize complications, how to quit smoking, and information about triggers and environmental controls.
What do Anna's patients have to say?
“I struggled with my asthma treatments for years but after meeting with Anna I have a better understanding of my disease and what I must do in order to manage it properly.”
“I am much more confident in my ability to manage my symptoms and work through flare ups using the action plan that my doctor put together for me after meeting with Anna.”
“I now know how important it is to use my asthma controller medication on a regular basis, even when I am feeling good. I feel like I’ve got my life back now.”