Medication Management in the Elderly
This session will discuss how ageing can affect therapeutic use of medicines, medicines that should be used with caution or dose adjusted in the elderly, recognising and assessing drug interactions, and how medicines can influence other aspects of health, such as falls risk and wound healing. The session will conclude with tips for working collaboratively with pharmacists to support medication-related patient care.
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Dr Jacinta Johnson is an Advanced Practice Pharmacist who holds in a joint role as a Lecturer in Pharmacy at the University of South Australia and practicing as a Senior Pharmacist within SA Health, where she supports research across the public hospital pharmacy departments. Jacinta’s teaching centres around pharmacology and therapeutics in practice and her research focuses upon medication safety and interprofessional care relating to medicines.