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.…
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7 problems with BPSD
The term “behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia” (BPSD) is a harmful artificial construct used…
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…
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…
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…