Objectives: Nursing home (NH) residents with dementia is exposed to high rates of
psychotropic prescriptions. Our objectives were to:(1) pool the prevalence estimates of …

Summary Background The WHO Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2030
encourages routine collection and reporting of a set of essential mental health indicators …

The pharmaceutical industry's influence on psychiatric research and practice has been
profound and has resulted in exaggerated claims of the effectiveness of psychotropic …

Background Antipsychotic medications are commonly prescribed to critically ill adult patients
and initiation of new antipsychotic prescriptions in the intensive care unit (ICU) increases the …

As a symptomatic predementia stage with progressive cognitive decline, mild cognitive
impairment (MCI) is common with aging. How changes in self-reported sleep duration affect …

The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of polypharmacy and potentially
inappropriate medications (PIMs) in a population of older adults living in nursing homes …

Background Polypharmacy, the use of multiple medications by one individual, may be
associated with adverse health outcomes including poor cognition. However, it remains …

Abstract Study Objective Multimorbidity and multimedicine use are common in people with
cardiovascular disease and can lead to harms, such as prescribing errors and drug …

Risk factors involved in the different osteoporotic fracture locations are not well-known. The
results of this study suggest that there is not one typical profile characterising a particular …

Aging is characterized by substantial changes in sleep architecture that negatively impact
fitness, quality of life, mood, and cognitive functioning. Older adults often fail to reach the …