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When B.C.’s seniors advocate asked for new Pharmacare statistics on how many care home residents were given antipsychotic and antidepressant medications in 2020, while COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the facilities, she discovered an alarming line on a graph shooting upward.
“It is getting worse,” Isobel Mackenzie said. “I’m very concerned.”
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In response to a Postmedia query, Mackenzie asked for Pharmacare data until the end of December, and found the continuation of a disturbing pattern for which she had first raised alarm bells last year: Despite years of effort to reduce the use of these drugs on seniors without an accompanying diagnosis of psychosis or depression, care homes which were hit hard by COVID turned to them again in 2020.
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