Assessing Pain Among Individuals Living With Dementia

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I received a telephone call from a caregiver in an assisted living facility with a request to restart quetiapine for a male resident living with severe dementia and type 2 diabetes mellitus. This resident had been successfully tapered off quetiapine nine months earlier. Although he had a history of psychotic symptoms and physical aggression, he had been both medically and behaviorally stable.
Source: Caring for the Ages - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Caring Collaborative Source Type: news