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YOU ARE APPROACHED by a man in his 30s who asks for “some of those bacterial eye drops you get from a pharmacist”. You ask him what symptoms he has, and he says he has really red, sore, itchy eyes that water all the time, and he’s been sneezing a bit lately.
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
Current clinical guidelines emphasise the significance of having two Adrenaline Auto-Injectors (AAIs) for individuals at risk of anaphylaxis.1*
