7 words not to use in alzheimer news
Counterintuitively, the words the majority of us most want to hear with respect to Alzheimer…
Browsing: pharmaceutical companies
20 compelling reasons to rethink the way we label and medicalise the behaviour of people who live with dementia #BanBPSD
In June this year, I posted an open letter to the worldwide dementia care community.…
7 problems with BPSD
The term “behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia” (BPSD) is a harmful artificial construct used…
alzheimer disease didn’t do this. drugs and dementia jail did
I’ve blogged a lot about the negative impacts of the inappropriate use of quetiapine (Seroquel)…
7 snippets from a story about unborn baby bunnies that is scarily similar to the myth of bpsd
For about 80 years, it was accepted as scientific fact that rabbits were first domesticated…
tardive what? 7 things dementia care partners, care staff and medical professionals should know about this kind of dyskinesia
Three years after my mother was inappropriately prescribed the antipsychotic medications risperidone and quetiapine, she…
30 haloperidol / haldol side effects
I advocate against the inappropriate use of antipsychotics in treating people who live with dementia…
four years later is too late for my mom. but it’s not for others.
On December 3, 2013, a year after Mom had moved into a long-term care facility…
teepa talks antipsychotics: 6 quotable quotes
When I read reporter Gillian Slade’s Medicine Hat News article on Teepa Snow’s perspective on…
101 potential causes of behaviour by people living with dementia that institutional care staff may find challenging
While researching my second JAMDA article, I came across a relatively recent paper by Dr.…