An observational study of psychotropic drug use and initiation in older patients resident in their own home or in care.

Objective: to compare the prescription of psychotropic medications for patients living in care homes with that for patients living at home.

Design And Setting: retrospective population database study in the Tayside region of Scotland.

Subjects: 70,297 patients aged ≥65 and followed until death or the end of the study.

The burden of psychotropic drug prescribingin people with dementia: a populationdatabase study.

Objective: to compare psychotropic prescribing in older people with dementia and the general elderly population.

Design And Setting: retrospective population database study in 315 General Practices.

Subjects: there were 271,365 patients aged > or = 65, of which 10,058 (3.