Almost a third of nursing home residents are on antipsychotics:
And patients can be given the medicines, whether they are psychotic or not. The drugs are often used to calm demented patients, some with Alzheimer’s disease, and to help maintain order in nursing homes, which are often understaffed and reluctant to use physical restraints. But the FDA hasn’t approved the drugs for these uses, compounding the ethical questions.
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