Staff shortage
According to Bianca Buurman, president of the V&VN, the professional association of nurses, the use of antipsychotics can be reduced, but the practice is unruly. “The absenteeism and staff shortage in nursing homes is high. Due to this work pressure, medication is requested more quickly if there is a difficult situation with a resident.”
Buurman does not expect that the use of psychotropic drugs in elderly people with dementia will decrease in the coming years. Forecasts published earlier by the RIVM show that the number of people with dementia will double to 330,000 in the next twenty years. The complexity of care for elderly people with dementia has also increased, because people continue to live at home longer and only end up in a nursing home if it is really no longer possible.
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