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Katrina Azer, clinical pharmacist for Tend Health, explains the value of social prescribing which can be incorporated into any pharmacy practice
1. World Health Organization. A toolkit on how to implement social prescribing. 2022. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789290619765
2. NIH National Institute on Aging: Social isolation, loneliness in older people pose health risks. April 23 2019. https://www.nia.nih.gov/news/social-isolation-loneliness-older-people-pose-health-risks
3. Polley M, Bertotti M, Kimberlee R, Pilkington K, Refsum C. A review of the evidence assessing impact of social prescribing on healthcare demand and cost implications. London: University of Westminster; 2017. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789290619765
This article, written by Sidhesh Phaldessai, provides an overview of geriatric psychopharmacology, including the epidemiology of mental health disorders in the older population, the physiological changes that occur with ageing and their impact on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and the use of psychotropic medications in older adults
Current clinical guidelines emphasise the significance of having two Adrenaline Auto-Injectors (AAIs) for individuals at risk of anaphylaxis.1*
