Hannah Hussain - Medicines Management in Dementia

Hannah Hussain narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.

Hannah recently collaborated with Dementia UK to produce digital content for their website and practice development team. This provides ongoing learning and development for Admiral nurses nationally, a group of people who provide essential support on medicines managment.

What is medicines management?

A term defined by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) as: “The clinical, cost-effective and safe use of medicines to ensure patients get the maximum benefit from the medicines they need, while at the same time minimising potential harm.” Also referred to as medicines optimisation, medicines management has been defined as a "system of processes and behaviours that determine how medicines are used by the NHS and patients" (National Prescribing Centre 2002).

The ultimate goal of safe and effective medicines management is to optimise the benefits that treatment offers and attain the best outcome for each patient - people with Alzheimer's disease may take medicines to treat the disease itself, mood or behavior changes, and other medical conditions, managing multiple medicications is important stuff! Hannah explores in this blog.

Find the original text, and narration here on our website.

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-medicines-management-in-dementia/

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Hannah Hussain is a PhD Student in Health Economics at The University of Sheffield. As a proud third generation migrant and British-Asian, her career path has been linear and ever evolving, originally qualifying as a Pharmacist in Nottingham, then Health Economics in Birmingham. Her studies have opened a world into Psychology, Mental Health and other areas of health, and with that and personal influences she found her passion for dementia.

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