A recent Lighthouse publication from Macquarie University has found that aged care residents with dementia are prescribed antipsychotic medication at nearly twice the rate of those without dementia, despite years of reforms designed to reduce overmedication.
Use of antipsychotic twice as high in aged care residents with dementia
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