The Horrifying Nursing Home Report EVERY Senior Should See

My job as a doctor is always to make my patients’ better…

Not to make my life easier.

But at too many nursing homes today, it looks like they’ve thrown that simple wisdom right out the window.

A horrifying new government report has just revealed a truly upsetting practice that is happening far too often in nursing homes across America.

It involves intentionally misdiagnosing patients… and loading them up with harmful drugs.

It left me furious… and, I have to warn you, you’re going to be upset, too.

But if you have a loved one in a nursing home right now, this is an urgent warning you need to hear.

When you think about the risks of placing a loved one in a nursing home, you may worry about things like falls or infections.

The last thing on your mind would be that medical professionals would intentionally misdiagnose your loved one – all to make their shifts go by more easily.

But it happens… and you need to be on the lookout.

A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that nursing home patients are regularly being diagnosed with schizophrenia they don’t have.

And that’s especially true for dementia patients.

You see, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services developed a system to keep nursing homes from prescribing antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia.

And there’s a good reason for that. These drugs can make dementia symptoms worse and can increase the risk of falls.

So, if nursing homes hand out too many antipsychotics to their dementia patients, it can damage their ratings.

Now, it looks like nursing homes have developed a clever little work-around…

They just diagnose their dementia patients as schizophrenic instead, and load them up on the meds anyway.

Why? Because these drugs can sedate dementia patients… basically turn them into zombies, so they are easier for staff to handle.

In fact, the government report didn’t mince words at all. It made clear that these drugs were being given to dementia patients “to manage their behavior for the benefit of staff.”

Yeah, you read that right… some nursing homes are giving inappropriate and potentially dangerous drugs to seniors with dementia to make their staff’s lives easier.

The patients be damned, I guess…

This is absolutely outrageous… and a complete betrayal of medical ethics.

Shame on the doctors involved… the nurses… the administrators… and, heck, even the pharmacists who should notice when an unreasonably large percentage of patients are suddenly getting medicines for schizophrenia.

This is not a common disorder, after all. Only a fraction of a percent of people in the general population have schizophrenia.

So, what do you do?

If you have a loved one in a nursing home who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, get a second opinion immediately – from someone outside the nursing home.

You may not be your loved one’s primary caregiver anymore – but they just might need you now more than ever.