Reacción a "Reactions: Use of antipsychotics for dementia associated with more harm than previously thought, study finds"

This evidence should prompt renewed efforts to reduce the prescribing of antipsychotics to people living with dementia. There are rare circumstances where antipsychotics are genuinely required, and the benefits outweigh these risks, but for the majority of patients with behavioural symptoms that might lead to them being prescribed antipsychotics, we should be focussing on much safer behavioural management approaches. The problem is that this type of intervention is quite expensive and resource-intensive. There is a risk therefore that patients might be prescribed harmful antipsychotics simply because trained staff who can safely manage their behaviour are not sufficiently available.