the broken lens of BPSD: why we need to rethink the way we label the behaviour of people who live with alzheimer’s disease
In December 2016, my first-ever journal article (Efforts to Reduce Antipsychotic Use in Dementia Care…
Browsing: pharmaceutical companies
will fear of alzheimer’s drive us to drugs for life?
My friend DT is worried. He’s got me worried too. DT, recently retired from the…
20 caregivers answer the antipsychotic question
Anyone who reads this blog knows my position on inappropriately prescribing antipsychotic medications to people…
misprescribing antipsychotic drugs to elderly dementia patients is an outrage. it’s also elder abuse.
I’m re-blogging this article with the express permission of the author Dr. Michael A.…
35 things that may cause people with dementia (and you) to become uncooperative, upset, angry, anxious or “aggressive”
Are people who live with dementia sometimes uncooperative, upset, angry or even “aggressive?” Yes. But…
20 behavioural expressions for which antipsychotic medications are unwarranted and ineffective in people who live with dementia
Antipsychotic medications are meant to treat psychosis, not dementia. Dementia care pioneer Dr. Allen Power…
40 risperdal side effects
I advocate against the inappropriate use of antipsychotics in treating people who live with dementia…
juiced and joyful over jamda
It’s not every day that a non-academic, non-researcher, “nobody” without a whole bunch of letters…
drugging the elderly: how much is too much?
The prescription drug problem in the province of Quebec, particularly with respect to elderly…
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…