For older people and frail people, the long-term benefit of medicines reduces and the potential for harm from adverse effects increases. When the benefit–risk balance changes in this way, medicine review and optimisation are important to simplify the therapeutic regimen, reduce inappropriate medicines and minimise risks. In this article, pharmacist prescriber Linda Bryant uses two case studies to illustrate important considerations during medicine reviews
Is mindfulness a mindless waste of time?
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Is mindfulness a mindless waste of time?
Thursday 28 June 2018, 01:44 PM

Meditation, mindfulness and and the lotus position have all been tried by Barbara Docherty
Mindfulness can cause some people to detach from reality and lose their critical powers of thinking, writes Barbara Docherty who has delved into all strategies to achieve tranquillity
More psychologists and neuroscientists are pointing to potentially negative consequences of these techniques
I think I’ve tried them all. Mindful
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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