Psychotropic medications for elders in residential care.
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Psychotropic medications in older people in residential care facilities and associations with quality of life: a cross-sectional study.
BACKGROUND Psychotropic medications have been associated with many adverse outcomes in older people living in residential care. Home-like models of residential care may be preferable to traditional models of care and we hypothesized that this model may impact on the prevalence of psychotropic medications. The objectives were to: 1) examine associations between psychotropic medications and quali...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The New Zealand medical journal
دوره 121 1274 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008