Maggi Banning

Medication Management in Care of Older People

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Medication Management in Care of Older People is an accessible introduction to medication management and its role in the management of older people and their medicines. It addresses key issues in medication management, evaluates professional roles and clinical practice initiatives and explores healthcare policy and prescribing initiatives. This text explores the biology and neurobiology of ageing, pathological conditions such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, medication errors, issues of concordance, long term conditions and the older person, the principles of applied pharmacology and its relationship to older people. Medication Management in Care of Older People will be of interest to health care professionals who either have an interest in medication management and older people, or who are qualified independent or supplementary prescribers, and will enable them to comprehend the principles of applied pharmacology and medication management to enable them to use this knowledge in their daily practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781405151740
• ISBN-10: 1405151749
• Artikelnr.: 22753027

Autorenporträt

Maggi Banning is a Senior Lecturer in Advanced Clinical Practice at Brunel University, West London, UK

Inhaltsangabe

1. Older people and their medicines: Health objectives and healthinitiatives.

2. The physiology of human ageing.

3. The application of applied pharmacology to the olderperson.

4. Medication management and the older person.

5. Medication errors and the older person.

6. Concordance with medication and older people.

7. Neurophysiology, and neuropathology of ageing.

8. The management of the older person with a long-termcondition.

9. The community pharmacist's role in the management ofolder people and their medicines