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Due to staff shortage in the health care sector, elderly dementia patients receive unsafe antipsychotic medications, specialists told Pointer. The specialists said there are too few nurses to care for elderly dementia patients, leading to nursing homes giving their residents unsafe medications to reduce their dementia symptoms. Out of hopelessness, nursing homes prescribe the medication," Van Marum said. "Due to …
