QUM001A An introduction to Quality Use of Medicines

✓ What is QUM?
✓ How is QUM especially relevant to older persons?
✓ Basic Pharmacology – what happens when the body is given
drugs?

QUM001B General Issues Relevant to the Ageing Body

✓ Physical changes in ageing
✓ Homeostasis
✓ Drug effects and adverse effects ✓ Responses to disease and drugs

QUM001C Safe and Appropriate use of Medicines

✓ Drug on drugs interactions
✓ Drug interactions and falls risk
✓ Antipsychotics and BPSD
✓ Drug induced movement disorders