Three employees of a California nursing home are in police custody accused of forcibly administrating psychotropic drugs to patients to make them easier for staff to control. One, a former director of nursing, ordered that dementia patients be given high doses of the mood-altering drugs not as part of their...
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Boomers Helping Parents with Medication Management
According to a new survey from Caring.com, baby boomers are playing an active role when it comes to decisions about their parents’ medications. Three quarters of boomers had some or a great deal of influence regarding the types of medications or other treatments taken by the person for whom they...