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
Working in war zones: Straight talking from a pharmacist on the front line
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Working in war zones: Straight talking from a pharmacist on the front line
Monday 1 February 2021, 01:40 AM
One of the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Ms Straight spent three months in the camps setting up a COVID-19 treatment centre. Photo: John Owens on Wikimedia Commons
From near-miss air strikes and suicide bombers to ransacked health clinics, no two days are the same for New Zealand pharmacist Petra Straight who works for Save the Children. She talks to Anna Lee
“Honestly, it wasn’t an overly exciting year,” claims New Zealand pharmacist Petra Straight, on what, to anyone else, would have been a big year.