The Seven Ages of Man

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The Seven Ages of Man
Lead role Population of Hertfordshire Support
act Local community pharmacist

• Narrator Linda Radford

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• All the worlds a stage
• and all the men and women merely players
• They have their exits and their entrances
• And one man in his time plays many parts.
• His acts being seven ages

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At first the infant, mewling and puking in the
nurses arms

• Preconception, pharmacists role
• Support healthy lifestyle
• Well woman support, preconception advice
• Advice to his pregnant mother
• Help with smoking cessation
• Alcohol advice, currently advice no alcohol
• Support healthy diet
• Safe minor ailments support during pregnancy
• New parent support, pharmacists role
• Minor ailment
• Feeding support

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Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and
shining morning face, creeping like snail
unwillingly to school

• Childhood, pharmacists role
• Minor ailment support
• Childhood disease and medicines management
• Reduce secondary smoke inhalation
• Advice about immunisation

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And then the lover, sighing like a furnace, with
a woeful ballad made to his mistress eyebrow.

• The adolescent, the pharmacists role
• Sexual health promotion
• EHC
• Chlamydia
• Smoking cessation and advice
• Alcohol interventions
• Drug misuse support
• Needle exchange
• Medicines management
• Healthy eating

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Then a soldier, full of strange oaths, and
bearded like thepard, jealous in honour, sudden
and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble
reputation even in the canons mouth.

• Young adult, pharmacists role
• Public health interventions
• Smoking cessation,
• Healthy living
• Support self care
• Travel advice
• Drug and alcohol services
• Mental health support
• Support for long term conditions

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And then the justice, in fair round belly with
good capon lind, with eyes severe and beard of
formal cut, full of wise saws and modern
instances and so he plays his part.

• Middle age, pharmacists role
• Management of long term conditions
• Public health interventions, screening
• Blood pressure monitoring
• Blood glucose testing
• Cholesterol testing
• Smoking cessation
• Drug and alcohol services
• Support for carers

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The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipperd
pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on
side his youthful hose, well savd, a world too
wide for his shrunken shank and his big manly
voice, turning again toward childish treble,
pipes and whistles in his sound.

• Older people, the pharmacists role
• Support of long term conditions
• Medicines management, reviews in a consultation
  room
• Prevent medicines wastage and safe destruction,
• Falls preventions
• Adjustments to help him take or use medicines
• Improve access to medicines
• Support social services

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Last scene of all, that ends this strange
eventful history, is second childishness and mere
oblivion sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans
everything

• Vulnerable people, the pharmacist's role
• Palliative care
• Carer support
• Community nursing support
• With grateful acknowledgement to William
  Shakespeare (As You Like It, Act II, Scene7)