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Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Jul 14 7:14am | Replies (10)

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@robertwills

Thank you for your reply but I don't think you fully understood the situation. Patient was given an anti-psychotic which reversed the initial severe "dementia" symptoms to an almost normal state. Now within days, 1.5 years later, patient reverted almost back to the dementia state. However the doctor is saying the Alzheimers has simply progressed.

Plus, you should understand that while assisted living facilities must keep records the system is not 100% guaranteed. A medtech may simply indicate in the records that medication was given, without actually giving the patient the medication for example. I believe this happens for a variety of reasons, such as pure laziness for example.

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That is scary for me and my mom.

@robertwills facilities in the U.S. that dispense medications to patients are required to have their medication dispensing checked monthly by a licensed pharmacists. Facility pharmacies are given meds per patient and only enough for a 30 day period before they are refilled for the pharmacy. When I dispensed medication to chronic psychiatric patients my medication room was checked monthly for errors and to be sure pill counts were correct. Med dispensing is not done willy nilly like you indicated.
And as another person noted ALZ is an unpredictable disease. Sounds like you’re not willing to accept the diagnosis?