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This Nursing Home Calms Troubling Behavior Without Risky Drugs

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"At the end of six months or so," Tomac says, "we were able to get them all off any antipsychotics."

The next year they extended the policy to all of Ecumen's nursing homes. "Our goal, Matthes says, "was to reduce our antipsychotic use by 20 percent. And in the first year we reduced it by 97 percent."


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Norm DeLisle

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