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
Another year, another lockdown: Antidote pharmacies
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Another year, another lockdown: Antidote pharmacies
Friday 8 October 2021, 02:23 PM
Antidote co-owner Chin Loh is frustrated at how difficult it is for pharmacies to begin offering the COVID-19 vaccine
Eighteen months after New Zealand's first nationwide Alert Level 4 lockdown, Pharmacy Today reporters Jonathan Chilton-Towle and Anna Lee revisited, in a socially distanced way, pharmacy staff they interviewed last year to see how a year and a half has changed the pandemic landscape
When news of an Alert Level 4 lockdown broke, Chin Loh, co-owner of Dunedin's Antidote chain, closed two of its eight pharmacies, Antidote Octagon and