Maine has the 12th highest rate of long-term nursing home residents on antipsychotics, which carry health risks.

When agitated dementia patients wander or shout through the night, families and caregivers understandably feel the need to ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced new strategies to help decrease the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medication in nursing homes. Those include updates to the State ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Strong warnings about the dangers of giving antipsychotic drugs to patients with dementia have reduced use of the drugs in these patients by a "modest" 19 percent, U.S. researchers ...

Nursing homes in states that adopted essential caregiver programs during COVID saw antipsychotic use decline, underscoring the need to avoid resident isolation in future health crises, researchers say ...

Antipsychotic use in people with dementia is associated with higher risks of a wide range of serious health outcomes compared with non-use, according to a new study from a collaboration across the ...

Elevated 180-day mortality reported for nursing home residents with Alzheimer disease and related dementias receiving hospice care. HealthDay News — For nursing home residents with Alzheimer disease ...

August 9, 2012 — Antipsychotic use in the United States is growing significantly faster among children and adolescents than among adults, a new study shows. The study also showed that only a small ...

Antipsychotic use among Medicaid-insured children from low- or very-low-income families skyrocketed in just under a decade, new research shows. Investigators from the University of Maryland in ...

—That question formed the basis of a new study from the U.K., which sought to learn more about the risk of tardive dyskinesia (TD)—a persistent, potentially irreversible movement disorder—in children ...