Dementia: The Road To Antipsychotics

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Your husband has Alzheimer’s.
You receive little support.
You are worn out.
You put your husband into Respite Care.
He has no idea where he is.
He goes into a woman’s bedroom thinking it is you.
He responds physically when a carer tries to separate him from his ‘wife’.
The Police are called and he is removed to a Mental Health Unit.
He is Sectioned and detained in the MHU.
It takes 6 months before any Home will accept him as a resident.
His carers at his current Nursing Home say he is a ‘lovely man: easy to manage’.
He occasionally smiles as he sits alone and catatonic in the Dining Room.
Is there any incentive for the Annual Review to change my brother’s medication?

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