Best Antidepressants For The Elderly Patient
Pharmacist Suzy Cohen answers a reader's question about whether or not the reader's elderly mother is taking the correct antidepressant therapy for someone her age. Cohen responds with advice about which antidepressants she would and would not recommend for an elderly patient, citing the different ways the drugs are processed in an older person's kidneys and liver.
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