Have an "Exit Plan" for Antipsychotics in Dementia Patients

June 2017

Questions continue to come up about how to treat agitation or psychosis in patients with dementia.

About one in 6 nursing home residents take an antipsychotic.

But benefits are small at best. Plus, there's one more death for every 50 to 100 dementia patients on an atypical for 8 to 12 weeks.

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