Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Drugging dementia: Are antipsychotics killing nursing home patients?

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. – When Gerry Gilgan left the hospital after brain surgery in February 2013, the 78-year-old went into hospice care at Irvine Cottages, south of Los Angeles. He had dementia, but was in good spirits and lucid when he arrived.
The next day, daughter Patrice Gilgan’s cellphone video shows a different man.
“Daddy, wake up! Daddy, wake up!” Patrice Gilgan says, unable to rouse her father, a retired New York City firefighter, who has since died.
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