Despite the risk of serious side effects, antipsychotic drug prescriptions for older adults appear to be increasing as patients get older, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Researchers are also concerned that among seniors who did receive an antipsychotic prescription in 2012, over 75 percent had no documented clinical psychiatric diagnosis during the year.
Furthermore, among those who did have a diagnosed mental disorder, a significant proportion of the oldest patients had dementia, regardless of FDA warnings that antipsychotics increase mortality in people with dementia.
[For more of this story, written by Traci Pedersen, go to http://psychcentral.com/news/2...-patients/93815.html]
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