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March 18, 2024 – Each week, roughly 250,000 nursing home residents are given dangerous antipsychotic (AP) drugs. In most cases these dangerous drugs are administered without clinical justification.
AP drugs are associated with significant adverse outcomes […]
The inappropriate antipsychotic drugging of nursing home residents, particularly those with dementia, is a widespread, national problem. Despite the Food and Drug Administration’s ‘black box’ warnings against using antipsychotics on elderly patients, they are frequently used to treat the so-called behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. As of fall 2018, 20% of nursing home residents […]
The inappropriate antipsychotic drugging of nursing home residents is a widespread and serious problem. Below is information on citations for inappropriate drugging for all licensed nursing homes, by state. These citations are for all inappropriate drugging, including (but not solely) antipsychotic drugs (unfortunately, the federal government does not have a distinct citation for inappropriate antipsychotic […]
