Nursing Homes Are Increasingly Using Epilepsy Drugs to Chemically Restrain Residents with Dementia

Nursing Homes Are Increasingly Using Epilepsy Drugs to Chemically Restrain Residents with Dementia

Nursing Homes Using Epilepsy Drugs to Chemically Restrain Residents with Dementia: A new government study indicates that anti-seizure medications usually reserved for epilepsy patients are increasingly being used by nursing homes to sedate dementia patients, says a...
Sexual Abuse of Three Residents Deliberately Suppressed by Bucks County Nursing Home Administrators, Say Prosecutors

Sexual Abuse of Three Residents Deliberately Suppressed by Bucks County Nursing Home Administrators, Say Prosecutors

Sexual Abuse of Residents Suppressed by Nursing Home Administrators: Prosecutors have charged two administrators at The Landing of Southampton with failure to report abuse, nursing home neglect, and other offenses. Information related to the sexual abuse of three...
White House Pledges New Efforts against Unnecessary Antipsychotic Drug Use in Nursing Home Dementia Patients

White House Pledges New Efforts against Unnecessary Antipsychotic Drug Use in Nursing Home Dementia Patients

White House against Antipsychotic Drug Use in Nursing Home Dementia Patients: The use of antipsychotic drugs in elderly patients not diagnosed with schizophrenia falls into the category of nursing home medication errors, a common but lesser known aspect of nursing...