NPR Shots explores a nursing home where “residents can always find something to do,” and where use of antipsychotic drugs has dropped dramatically.
This Nursing Home Calms Troubling Behavior Without Risky Drugs (NPR Shots, December 9, 2014)
NPR Shots explores a nursing home where “residents can always find something to do,” and where use of antipsychotic drugs has dropped dramatically.
This Nursing Home Calms Troubling Behavior Without Risky Drugs (NPR Shots, December 9, 2014)
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No kidding… Treating people like actual human beings is good for them and reduces mental distress? I’d never have thought about that. What kind of sick world we live in if that is news and using anti-psychotics on elderly is a default.