A recent Human Rights Watch report entitled “They Want Docile: How Nursing Homes in the United States Overmedicate People with Dementia” paints a disturbing picture of how patients with dementia are treated in nursing homes. The 157-page report estimates that each week more than 179,000 people living in U.S. nursing facilities are given antipsychotic medications,…
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