A place of the heart: From army shed to hauora HQ

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A place of the heart: From army shed to hauora HQ

Friday 2 March 2018, 03:18 PM

Teresea Olsen at the boardroom table of the Kōkiri Marae Keriana Olsen Trust: “This has never been a job for me. This is something I enjoy doing. I live it. It comes easily to me”

Teresea Olsen QSM has built a major Māori health and social services provider on the foundations laid by her mother, who sought to provide hope and help from makeshift premises in a corner of the Hutt Valley. Virginia McMillan reports. Pictures by Dean Zilwood

When the US military left New Zealand after World War II, a row of their storage sheds stood unused on a street in Seaview, Lower Hutt. By the late

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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

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