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BEST YOUTH OR SENIOR HEALTH SERVICE AWARD
This award recognises the outstanding achievement of a health service designed and delivered either for children and youth aged 10 to 25 years of age, or for people over 65 years of age. You will have co-designed with the target group, made a significant positive impact on the lives of people in these groups and strived to make the service appropriate, engaging and effective. You will have used imagination to achieve outstanding outcomes for your customers/patients
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*
