The Chief Medical Officer has written to approximately 28,000 practitioners about new resources for prescribers to support care of people with dementia who live in residential aged care.

The resources and information has been developed to help practitioners who:

• have prescribed an antipsychotic or benzodiazepine to a patient living in residential aged care
• are working in an aged care setting

These include:

• general practitioners
• specialists
• nurse practitioners
• other medical practitioners

Read more:

New resources on psychotropic prescribing in residential aged care

Prescribing of psychotropics in residential aged care

Information and resources for nurses and personal care workers