For nursing home residents with Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) receiving hospice care, initiation of ...

Nursing homes in states that adopted essential caregiver programs during COVID saw antipsychotic use decline, underscoring the need to avoid resident isolation in future health crises, researchers say ...

Long-acting injectable antipsychotics are linked to a lower risk for disease relapse and mortality than oral antipsychotics ...

A large study shows risperidone raises stroke risk in patients with dementia, even those without cardiovascular disease — ...

Newly prescribed benzodiazepines or antipsychotics were tied to higher mortality for dementia patients in hospice. The drugs ...

Hospice care aims to bring comfort, peace, and dignity to patients at the end of life. Yet for the growing number of ...

Researchers in Japan have documented the case of a teenager whose psychotic symptoms consistently appeared before her ...

Medications commonly prescribed to ease dementia symptoms such as agitation, anxiety, and delirium — benzodiazepines and antipsychotics — may carry major unintended risks for people with dementia ...

A recently released report from a federal watchdog agency drew attention to nursing homes’ underreporting of resident falls ...

One person has been fired, and 11 employees of the Southeast Arkansas Human Development Center in Warren have been placed on ...

Seeing our baby jumping around like a tadpole on the screen at our 20 week scan was the most amazing moment – Tom, my husband ...

In rapper Gucci Mane's memoir, he reveals bipolar disorder and schizophrenia diagnoses. His wife says she takes these ...