Psychotropic medication in a randomly selected group of citizens receiving residential or home care.

Introduction: Treatment with one or more psychotropic medications (PMs), especially in the elderly, is associated with risk, and the effects of treatment are poorly validated. The aim of this article was to describe the use of PM in a population of citizens receiving either residential care or home care with focus on the prevalence of drug use, the combination of different PMs and doses in relation to current recommendations.

Methods: The medication lists of 214 citizens receiving residential care (122) and home care (92) were collected together with information on age, gender and residential status.

Shannon's monotonicity problem for free and classical entropy.

We give a short unified proof of the following theorem, valid in the context of both classical probability theory and Voiculescu's free probability theory: let (X(j)((1)), ...