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Jackie Clapperton is an intensive care paramedic for St John and a nurse practitioner for The Doctors Te Whare Hāpara, Turanga Health at Te Karaka Medical Centre and Hauora Tairāwhiti; Karen Hoare is a nurse practitioner in south Auckland, whose work has helped to improve newborn and infant enrolment with primary health providers as well as immunisation rates across all ethnic groups
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*
