Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality
The village people: NP academic tackles stigma of loneliness among the elderly
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The village people: NP academic tackles stigma of loneliness among the elderly
Tuesday 30 June 2020, 03:39 PM

Gerontology nurse practitioner and academic Michal Boyd points to a stigma around loneliness
If they’ve been an introvert all their life, they’re not going to change all of a sudden
Living in a retirement village may decrease older peopl
References
Boyd M, Calvert C, Tatton A, et al. Lonely in a crowd: Loneliness in New Zealand retirement village residents. Int Psychogeriatr 2020 (online 15 April).