“For the past eight years, Vicki Dyer has been the program director of the dementia ward at Lakewood, a continuing care centre in Waterville, Me., . . . What you won’t find at Lakewood is dementia patients lolling listlessly in chairs, lost to the world in a psychotropic haze. They just don’t give dementia patients anti-psychotic drugs at Lakewood. ‘Not on my unit,’ Dyer says. ‘Anti-psychotic drugs have been completely eliminated. Psychotropic medication is not meant for anyone with dementia.'”
Coming out of the Fog (The Telegram)
