Psychopharmacological drug treatment in Munich nursing homes

The survey of Munich nursing homes with 888 residents showed that 56.4% received psychotropic drugs and a twice as frequent prescription of antipsychotics to residents of double rooms than of single rooms. In a subsample of 397 residents the last review of the prescriptions of 17.5% of the psychotropic drugs was at least 3 months to partly years ago. Based on the American Beers-criteria 13.6% of the consumers of psychotropic drugs received psychotropic drugs, which preferably should not be taken by older people.