Eloise Gelinas depends on a personal health coach.
Tami Chappell for The New York Times
Pharmacists Brittany Bryant, center, and her sister Stephanie, right, lead a chair aerobics class in Augusta, Ga.
At Barney’s Pharmacy, her local drugstore in Augusta, Ga., the pharmacist outlines all her medications, teaching her what times of day to take the drugs that will help control her diabetes.
Ms. Gelinas, a retired nurse, also attends classes at the store once a month on how to manage her disease with drugs, diet and exercise. Since she started working with the Barney’s pharmacists, she boasts that her blood sugar, bad cholesterol and blood pressure have all decreased. “It’s my home away from home,” she says.