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Constipation: Prevention and Treatment

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Constipation is prevalent among aged care residents due to factors such as dietary changes, an increasingly sedentary lifestyle and forgetting to drink water throughout the day. In this lecture, pharmacist Dr Jenny Gowan provides an overview of constipation management, looking at both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical strategies.

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Jenny Gowan View profile
Dr Jenny Gowan is a practicing pharmacist, adjunct senior lecturer at Monash University and clinical associate at RMIT University. She has published over 500 educational articles, has copious experience in presentations and lectures and runs a consulting pharmacy company. Jenny was awarded the 2013 PSA Australian Pharmacist of the Year award and the 2016 AACP-MIMs Consultant Pharmacist of the Year Award.
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CPD time29m
First Published04 December 2022
Updated04 December 2022
Expires
04 December 2024
Learning Tools
Topics
Clinical Assessment
Primary Health
Preventative Health
Aged Care
Residential Aged Care