Half of older patients with dementia remain on psychotropic drugs a year after starting on them, study finds

Initial prescriptions for medications affecting cognition, such as antipsychotics, are disproportionately likelier to come from acute and post-acute settings such as emergency rooms, hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities than they are from doctors’ offices, new UCLA research suggests.

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