Practice guideline: Antipsychotics for agitation/psychosis in dementia

You may have heard that the American Psychiatric Association has in 2016 issued a new Practice Guideline on the Use of Antipsychotics to Treat Agitation or Psychosis in Patients with Dementia. Let me tell you briefly some of the points that stood out to me in this guideline regarding the use of antipsychotic medication to treat…