Audit finds widespread use of antipsychotic drugs in nursing homes

From NPR:About 1 in 7 elderly residents of nursing homes receives a so-called atypical antipsychotic medicine, a federal audit finds, despite an increased risk of death when the medicines are used to manage dementia in older people.A review of medical records found that most of the atypical antipsychotics were being used outside the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the medicines to