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Pharmacy in the Future
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BMA: Health and ageing
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RESPECT Trial
Randomised Evaluation of Shared Prescribing for the Elderly in the Community over Time
website www.respect-trial.co.uk

Department of Health
· National service framework for Older People

· Single assessment process for Older People

· Partnerships for Older People Projects

Pharmaceutical care of the elderly (PDF 60K)
Drug use in elderly patients
Pharmaceutical Journal (259;686-688)


NSF for Older People series
(1) What does the NSF for older people mean for pharmacy practice?
(2) The older patient
(3) Effective interventions to support medicines use in olderpeople
(4) Stroke
(5) Falls prevention and management


Pharmaceutical care — a model for elderly patients [PDF 200K]
This article describes a consultant-based clinical pharmacy service that has been provided for the past six years to elderly patients at Brighton General Hospital, a 180-bed hospital serving a community with a large proportion of elderly people


Advice to patients more
A series of "advice tips" on commonly used drugs is written by pharmacists from the Sussex Pharmacy Academic Practice Unit. It is intended as a reminder of points to be made by pharmacists as they hand out dispensed medicines

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