For those of you who work with older adults, I was wondering if anyone has documented the effect that shelter-in-place orders implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic have had on behavioral disturbances in patients with dementia. In answering this, please consider how your staff's behaviors also changed in response to the pandemic- e.g., restricted physical contact with residents as much as possible, discontinued communal dining and group recreation activities, deprescribed medications to limit contact, reduced BP and glucose checks, etc.
Have you seen any changes in the use of psychotropic medications pre- and post- lockdown (assuming that your facilities have managed to whether the storm and are now returning to some normalcy)?
In addition, is anyone aware of any published (or pre-published) work on this topic?
Thank you.