fear and ignorance create resistance
Despite a growing body of research that clearly demonstrates that in the vast majority of…
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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…
40+ seroquel side effects
I advocate against the inappropriate use of antipsychotics in treating people who live with dementia…
vindicated and validated
I advocate against the practice of inappropriately prescribing antipsychotic medications to people who live with dementia;…
10 barriers to reducing antipsychotics for dementia
As a result of my experiences as a care partner to someone living with dementia, I…
Quebec’s eldercare drug culture: a provincial picture paints 1,314 shocking prescriptions
The huge variance in the rates and ways antipsychotic are prescribed to elderly people with…
let’s get dead right about dementia and dangerous drugs
Efforts to reduce antipsychotic use in dementia care are starting to bear fruit, but…
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…
it’s no joke: seroquel and risperdal illegally marketed to treat elderly people with dementia
John Oliver’s tragically funny Big Pharma lampoon went viral. Maybe because, like most incisive…