More seniors in care getting antidepressant and antipsychotic medications
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Anna Van Blankenstein lost her husband, Louis, earlier this year, but she lost the person she knew before that. Unbeknownst to her, he had been placed on antipsychotic medication.
Anna Van Blankenstein lost her husband, Louis, earlier this year.
But she lost the person she knew before that.
“His demeanour changed," she said. "At first, I thought it was depression.”
After COVID-19 lockdowns began in long-term care, she noticed during window visits that there had been a significant change in him.
“He couldn’t talk," Van Blankenstein recalled. "He couldn’t operate the phone anymore to call us. He couldn’t operate the remote … It was very worrisome.”
She wondered if he’d had a stroke.
It wasn’t until she moved him to another care home that she made a disturbing discovery.
