California Partnership to Improve Dementia Care

 

The Partnership, formed in 2012, is an effort to reduce the unnecessary use of antipsychotic medication in people with dementia. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), set a goal of reducing antipsychotic medication by 30 percent by the end of 2016.  In California, that goal has been achieved. As of the second quarter of 2020, the use of antipsychotic medication was reduced by 48 percent. As a result, only one in ten California residents are prescribed antipsychotic medication by their physician, the fourth lowest in the nation.

 

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