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Use of Antipsychotics in BPSD app for iPhone and iPad


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Lifestyle Health & Fitness
Developer: Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
Free
Current version: 1.0, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 29 Nov 2019
App size: 7.53 Mb

This app is designed to help providers understand, assess and manage residents in LTC homes with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (responsive behaviours), with a focus on antipsychotic medications. The app integrates best-practice evidence with clinical experience, and emphasizes the following important principles:
* Being resident-centred,
* Being mindful of benefits, risks and safety concerns,
* Using an interprofessional team approach and validated tools,
* Prescribing conservatively, and,
* Reassessing regularly for opportunities to deprescribe medications that are no longer needed.