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
Disabled peoples’ experiences accessing healthcare during COVID-19
Disabled peoples’ experiences accessing healthcare during COVID-19
As the motu moves beyond the acute phase of the pandemic, and rapidly altered healthcare delivery approaches, disabled people – accounting for almost one-quarter of the population – have largely been forgotten, write Michael Roguski, Tara Officer, Gretchen Good, Solmaz Nazari Orakani, Daniela Händler-Schuster and Karen McBride-Henry
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