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In the past year and a half, St Lukes Medical Pharmacy has lost most of its patients, prescriptions and retail sales, and has been forced to make six staff redundant as a result of a pop-up community-based testing centre.
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*
