If you’re managing an aging parent’s medications in Calabasas, the challenge is usually not access to doctors — it’s the opposite. There are too many of them. The cardiologist at one system, the primary care doctor at another, the orthopedist across the 101, the pharmacy at the Commons on one prescription and the pharmacy in Woodland Hills on another. Every prescriber is doing their job. Nobody is looking at the full list.

That’s what I do. I’m Andrea Simon, a practicing hospital pharmacist, and ManyMeds is the private-practice version of the work I do on a hospital ward every day: review the whole medication list, check it against itself, flag what’s duplicated or inappropriate for an older adult, and give the family one clear document to actually use.

What a medication management visit looks like

The visit starts before we meet. You (or your parent) send me the current medications — ideally a photo of the pill bottles on the kitchen counter — plus any recent discharge paperwork. I review the list against the clinical picture before the appointment.

The visit itself is about an hour, either at your parent’s home in Calabasas or on a video call. I go through every medication: what it’s for, who prescribed it, whether the dose still makes sense given their kidney and liver function, whether any of the combinations raise a red flag, and whether there’s a medication on the list that probably shouldn’t be there anymore.

You leave with a written summary. The current medication list in a format every specialist and pharmacist will actually read, the questions I’d ask each doctor, and anything I’d flag for their attention.

This is the clinical eye I use on the ward every day. The setting is different. The work is the same.

What I actually do

The core service is a full medication review — the kind I do every day for hospitalized patients, but now in your parent’s home, where they actually take the medications.

That includes:

Comparing every prescription against every other prescription for interactions
Flagging medications that show up on the Beers Criteria list of drugs to watch in adults over 65
Identifying anything on the list that was probably started during a hospital stay and should have been stopped afterward — antipsychotics, sleep aids, and PPIs (acid-reducing drugs) are the usual offenders
Building a maintained medication list that works for the next doctor’s appointment, the next hospital stay, or the next ER visit
Catching refill timing problems, cost shortcuts, and pharmacy-swap issues before they cause a missed dose

What I don’t do is replace your parent’s primary care physician. I’m the second set of eyes the medical system doesn’t have time to provide.

Who this is for

Families in Calabasas and Hidden Hills reach out in specific situations:

Your parent just came home from UCLA West Valley, Tarzana, or Los Robles with a new medication list and the hospital team didn’t walk through what changed.
Your parent has four or five specialists and the complete picture is scattered across four portals.
One of the parents has early or moderate dementia and you’re worried some of the medications could be making cognition worse.
A recent fall, a new confusion episode, or a near-miss has you wondering whether the medications are adding to the risk.
You live in Calabasas but you’re also the out-of-state adult child for another aging parent, and you want the same quality of medication review closer to home.

If any of that resonates, a free 15-minute phone call is the right next step.

Service area in the western Valley

ManyMeds serves Calabasas (ZIP 91302) and the surrounding western San Fernando Valley and Conejo Valley communities: Hidden Hills, Agoura Hills, Woodland Hills, Topanga, and the inland Malibu corridor. For gated communities, guest-list and access logistics get handled before the visit.

If you’re not sure whether your location is in Andrea’s service area, ask on the intake call. The answer is almost always yes. Not in one of the named cities? Video consultations are available to families anywhere in California.

Coming home from a nearby hospital

Hospitals near Calabasas include:

UCLA West Valley Medical Center, in West Hills (formerly West Hills Hospital & Medical Center)
Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center, in Tarzana
Los Robles Regional Medical Center, East Campus, in Westlake Village

Andrea is a practicing hospital pharmacist, so she knows how discharge paperwork and medication reconciliation work, and where they tend to fall short. The days right after a hospital discharge are when medication errors are most common in older adults. If your parent was discharged in the last week or two with a changed medication list, mention it when you book, because it’s time-sensitive.

Pricing

ManyMeds pricing is on the main site. There are two options: a one-time Medication Clarity Visit, and Ongoing Medication Support for families whose medicines keep changing. Ongoing support covers list and schedule updates when medications change, review of new prescriptions and discharge paperwork, help preparing questions for doctor visits, and a monthly check-in. Private pay — insurance does not currently reimburse pharmacist-led medication review outside of narrow Medicare MTM programs.

The free 15-minute call

Every engagement starts with a free 15-minute phone call. You tell Andrea what’s going on. She tells you whether she can help, and if she can’t, she tells you that too.

Book the call at the top of this page, or go directly to the scheduling page.