At least two California nursing homes have been charged with habitually overmedicating elderly residents for no other reason than to staff convenience. The drugs given are known as antipsychotics, and are given to residents without any psychiatric diagnoses. Nursing home abuse lawyers at Pintas & Mullins highlight this often-fatal form of abuse against the elderly, …
Antipsychotic Drug Use on Decline in Nursing Homes
Nursing home abuse lawyers at Pintas & Mullins are glad to report the use of antipsychotic drug treatment in American nursing homes is on the decline. Antipsychotics, intended only for the treatment of such cognitive disorders as schizophrenia, have long been used in nursing homes as ‘chemical restraints,’ to subdue irritable residents, despite the severe …
Overuse of Psychiatric Drugs in Nursing Homes Widespread
We often write on the overuse of dangerous medications in nursing homes – a practice known as chemical restraint – on this blog. It is an extremely important, insidious issue that has been hidden by nursing homes for far too long. Recently, federal investigators urged Medicare to take immediate action to stop chemical restraint after …