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Assisted Living Residents with Dementia Receiving Too Many Antipsychotics, GAO Says

(McKnightโ€™s) โ€“ Government investigators are calling for greater scrutiny of antipsychotics use among dementia patients in post-acute settings beyond nursing homes. Nearly a third of elderly dementia residents spending more than three months in nursing homes wind up taking the powerful drugs, Government Accountability Office investigators found after combing through databases of the Medicare Part […]

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