Insight

Getting a person off of anti-psychotics is essential to restore dignity and enhance end life care.
No one is functional on drugs used to control (so-called behavior problems in elderly people)-any caregiver who claims success at the expense of medicating people to death on hard drugs to make their job easier is outrageous. We cannot continue to give feeble-minded or elderly people powerful anti-psychotics.
I would suggest that the people who feel drugs help or slows down the process of mental aging consider this---
My mother-in-law could not talk or walk straight under the influence of anti-psychotic drugs (she’s also been certified as totally incompetent by a neurologist 11/2007)---
After being off anti-psychotics for seven months my mil can spell, write, do simple math, simple problem solving (interesting). Have a lot of young children’s workbooks on hand---in my mil case math books seem easiest for her to concentrate on.
The fact is she has more mental capacity since discontinuing anti-psychotics---yet the corporate care giving industry is telling us anti-psychotics are beneficial for our loved ones’ minds---this is absolutely false and may well be criminal.
I challenge any caregiver to bring their chemically induced patient to a neutral location, I will bring my Mil, and she will out perform their patient in any cognitive capacity.
My question is how do our elderly relearn the things they have known all their lives---and how do we retain our own mental capacity as we age.

Klcouncil
Thx fo carin