Physical Restraint and Antipsychotic Medication Use among Nursing Home Residents with Dementia
PURPOSE:
To
explore antipsychotic (AP) medications and physical restraint use and their
effects on physical function and cognition in older nursing home residents.
METHODS:
This
retrospective cohort studied involved 532 residents with dementia from 57
nursing homes participating in the Services and Health for Elderly in Long-Term
Care study. Poisson log regression models explored the effect of physical
restraint and/or AP medication use on cognitive or functional decline at
6 months.
RESULTS:
Physical
restraint use was associated with a higher risk of
both functional and cognitive decline compared with AP medication use alone.
These risks were highest among residents receiving both AP medications and
physical restraints, suggesting additive effects.
DISCUSSION:
Physical
restraint use, and even more strongly, concurrent physical restraint and AP
medication use, is related to function and cognitive decline in nursing home
residents with dementia. Antipsychotic use is cautioned, but these results
suggest physical restraint use is potentially more risky.
- 1Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centro Medicina dell'Invecchiamento, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: andrea.foebel@ki.se.
- 2Centro Medicina dell'Invecchiamento, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
- 3Aging and Services Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
- 4AGAPLESION Bethesda Clinic, Geriatric Center, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
- J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2016 Jan 5. pii: S1525-8610(15)00725-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2015.11.014.
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