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Description
This app is designed to help providers understand, assess and manage residents in LTC homes with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (responsive behaviours), with a focus on antipsychotic medications. The app integrates best-practice evidence with clinical experience, and emphasizes the following important principles:* Being resident-centred,* Being mindful of benefits, risks and safety concerns,* Using an interprofessional team approach and validated tools,* Prescribing conservatively, and,* Reassessing regularly for opportunities to deprescribe medications that are no longer needed.