Person-Centered Approach To Dementia Care Cuts Antipsychotic Use For Over Half Of Residents

The Appropriate Use of Antipsychotics (AUA) collaborative, a person-centered approach to dementia care, reduced or eliminated the use of off-label antipsychotic medications in more than half of the residents of 53 long-term care homes in Canada. These homes include 39 publicly funded long-term care homes in Newfoundland and Labrador, nine publicly funded homes in Prince Edward Island, and five publicly funded homes from the Seniors Quality Leap Initiative.

The five components of the AUA approach are:

Practice person-centered approaches to care to tailor, implement, and evaluate dementia care and medication reduction. This is the foundation . . .