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
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Sunday 26 November 2017, 11:21 AM
Stealth Mission
What do pharmacists do to relax once they have hung up the white coat at the end of the day A whole load of unusual things it turns out.
Each month we profile a pharmacist with an unusual hobby Georgina Tucker, pharmacist and immunisation programmes manager for Auckland and Waitemata DHB, had been sailing about three times in her life before she met her now husband, Sam, who grew up on a boat sailing around the Pacific. Together, they built a multi-hulled boat in their garage, and Ms Tucker now says if she ever gets sick of pharmacy, she knows what she can do
Let's start with the name, what is the boat called? Stealth Mission. That's based on the fact that most of it was built stealthily, mostly in the gara