10 seldom-mentioned “side effects” of using antipsychotics in long-term dementia care, which are also 10 more good reasons we should #BanBPSD
There are a tonne of reasons not to give antipsychotics to people who live with…
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teepa talks antipsychotics: 6 quotable quotes
When I read reporter Gillian Slade’s Medicine Hat News article on Teepa Snow’s perspective on…
List of 15,645 US nursing homes showing percentage of residents on antipsychotics
The United States’ Medicare.gov website includes a comprehensive section called Nursing Home Compare, which contains…
what happens when care homes stop giving antipsychotics to elderly people with dementia?
In June 2015, the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement released the results of a pan-Canadian collaborative project…
10 barriers to reducing antipsychotics for dementia
As a result of my experiences as a care partner to someone living with dementia, I…
the worldwide case against giving antipsychotics to elderly people living with dementia
Members of the worldwide Alzheimer’s and dementia care community overwhelmingly recommend against using antipsychotic drugs…
7 things you should know about how and why antipsychotics are inappropriately prescribed to people living with dementia in care facilities
The more research I do into the inappropriate use of antipsychotics to address responsive behaviours in…
the truth and lies about antipsychotics and greed: it’s not a pretty picture
Antipsychotic medications such as Risperdal (risperidone) and Seroquel (quetiapine) are prescribed to elderly people with dementia…
the dystonia did us in: august 15, 2016
Six days earlier, Mom had told me she was comfortable with her chin to her…
like puppets on a string: august 12, 2016
Three days before, Mom had been curled up in the shape of a question mark,…