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
Pharmacy... working on the margins
Friday 24 August 2018, 12:00 PM
Community pharmacy is in the process of deciding whether to access a new services agreement on offer from DHBs. Pharmacy sector commentator Anna Mickell argues the new agreement does not go far enough to relieve pharmacy’s reliance on non-pharmacy products and services to stay viable
In 2013, I heard a Pharmac representative say, in a sector consultation meeting, that dispensing was a “marginal cost” in community pharmacy and, as