Antipsychotics prescription in Czech social care residential care facilities for seniors - results of DEMDATA study
Abstract
The number of patients with dementia is rising quickly, due to the ageing population. There is currently cca 160 thousand people with dementia, three quarters of them living at their homes.
The numbers of patients living in residential care social services facilities is also rising significantly. In spite of this and even though the volume of literature about dementia published in the recent years is increasing, there is still relatively little awareness of the health conditions and care conditions in patients at such facilities.
There are few studies in Europe which provide quality data for planning care at long-term care facilities. Information about prevalence of dementia in Austrian and Czech is sporadic.
The DEMDATA study gathers data on the health conditions and healthcare conditions in dementia patients living in retirement homes and nursing homes in the Czech Republic (and analogous studies were done in Austria). One of the aspects studied was pharmacotherapy.
We are currently analysing and processing information from the DEMDATA study. In this article we focus on antipsychotics.