Use of Psychotic Medication on Elderly People and its Dangers

Huybrechts, K. F., Gerhard, T., Crystal, S., Olfson, M., Avorn, J., Levin, R., & Schneeweiss, S. (2012). Differential risk of death in older residents in nursing homes prescribed specific antipsychotic drugs: population based cohort study. Bmj, 344, e977.IntroductionThe article examines the risk of death among elder population in the nursing home due to the prescription of antipsychotic drugs. The paper examines the medication of elderly people using the psychotic drugs and how nurses can be incorporated in preventing psychotic drugs related health problems among the elderly.Problem StatementThe prevalence of the problem is that over t he last 14years, the number of children with obesity grown to include children of 2-9 years old. The problem is mostly facing the.