Podcasts

Volume 215, Issue 2 - 18 July 2021

MJA Podcasts 2021 Episode 28: Pyschotropics and dementia: effect of changing GP, with Heidi Welberry and Prof Henry Brodaty

Vol 215, Issue 2: 19 July 2021. Ms Heidi Welberry is from the Centre for Big Data Research in Health at UNSW Sydney. Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty is Director of the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre and Co-Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing. They discuss the association between changing GP and an increase in prescribing of antipsychotics for people with dementia entering a residential aged care facility, to accompany their research at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/215/3/psychotropic-medicine-prescribing-and-polypharmacy-people-dementia-entering ... With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 25 mins, 51 secs.