Aging & mental health
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Aging & mental health · Sep 2018
Observational StudyPsychotropic drug prescription for nursing home residents with dementia: prevalence and associations with non-resident-related factors.
To determine psychotropic drug prescription rates in nursing home residents with dementia and to identify associations with the so far understudied psychosocial non-resident-related factors. ⋯ Prescription rates for antipsychotics are similar compared to other countries, and relatively low for antidepressants, anxiolytics, and hypnotics. Our findings indicate that improvement of prescribing could provisionally best be targeted at resident-related factors.