Thirty years of geriatric therapeutics

Abstract

In the 1980s geriatric medicine was in its infancy in Australia,and geriatric therapeutics was a newly developing field. There was little primary literature regarding geriatric pharmacology and pharmacotherapy in older people. The Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital in Melbourne appointed its first geriatrician in 1983,and the ‘Geriatric Therapeutics’ series of articles (now known as ‘Geriatric Therapeutics Review’) began in 1986,as a partnership between the hospital's Pharmacy and Aged and Extended Care departments. Until 1990 Geriatric Therapeutics articles were published in the hospital's Pharmacy Bulletin. Since 1991 they have been published in this journal. For 30 years the series has prov..