Understanding and Reducing Antipsychotic Use in Dementia Care Workshop

About this Workshop

This 3-hour workshop provides a practical focus on supporting best-practice antipsychotic deprescribing in dementia care.

Participants will explore the risks and limitations of antipsychotic use in people living with dementia, including the importance of using the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time when non-medicine strategies have not been effective. The workshop also covers why regular review is essential, how mandatory reporting under the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards relates to antipsychotic use, and how antipsychotic audits and benchmarking can help assess performance and identify areas for improvement.

The workshop introduces the Minimising Antipsychotic Use in Dementia Care (MAP) Guide — a unique, practical checklist-style resource that brings together current best practice and guidelines into one person-centred guide. Through a case study, participants will explore how to apply the MAP Guide to support safer, more consistent, person-centred approaches to reviewing and reducing antipsychotic use in care settings.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the risks and limitations of antipsychotic use in people living with dementia
• Explain why regular review of antipsychotic medicines is important
• Describe mandatory reporting requirements for antipsychotic use under the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards
• Understand the role of antipsychotic audits and how comparing results with benchmarks can help identify areas for improvement
• Apply the MAP Guide — Minimising Antipsychotic Use in Dementia Care to a case study and consider how it may be used in care settings