Nursing homes don’t have the physical plants to encourage “independent” moving around—which dementia patients need. These folks shouldn’t be in nursing homes, but facilities specializing in dementia/alzheimer’s.
As a result, these meds are used to control rather than address real medical issues.
Anyone who has walked the halls of a nursing home with obviously medicated people lining the walls in wheelchairs has to swallow hard just thinking of it.
In many instances...
We’ve abandonned the raising of children to schools and day care. We’ve abandonned the honoring of our elderly by hiding them at ‘the home.’
So we can have stuff and the latest car and great vacations.
These people are the ‘stuff’ of life. They only want our time.
These statements do not apply in all cases.