Dementia patients are given antipsychotics, which FDA warns may increase the risk for deat ...

Nursing homes misuse antipsychotic drugs for dementia patients, disguise practice as schizophrenia treatment, watchdog finds.

Watchdog report flags antipsychotic misuse in nursing homes, revealing false schizophrenia diagnoses to inflate CMS ratings and compromise care.

While medication errors are still a frequent occurrence in nursing homes, their impact on the actual health of patients is limited, suggests new study findings published in the Journal of the American ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent data revealed an increase in medication use among nursing home residents in Ontario, Canada, “with the ...

Principle LTC, operator of 45 nursing homes in the Southeast, is building on its successful role testing a key drug for COVID-19 prevention and treatment to facilitate trials of a new Alzheimer drug.

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Government policies aimed at curbing excessive use of powerful psychiatric drugs for dementia patients in nursing homes are probably having an unintended side effect: greater use of anti-seizure ...

False diagnoses are used to mask inappropriate use of antipsychotic drugs on patients with dementia, a practice called chemical restraint, a government watchdog report said.