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DOUGLAS PHARMACEUTICALS COMMUNITY OR PRIMARY HEALTHCARE PHARMACIST OF THE YEAR
Douglas Pharmaceuticals is honoured to be sponsoring the Community or Primary Healthcare Pharmacist of the Year category and warmly congratulates this year’s winner Leanne Te Karu and finalist Penny Clark. It’s encouraging to see such excellent work being done at the coalface of healthcare in this country
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*
