Explain safer prescribing and antipsychotic risks to family — CASC communication station

Station brief

Format. Communication station, approximately 7–10 minutes active time after reading. You are the psychiatry registrar reviewing residential care medications with the resident's daughter. ^[1]

Candidate instructions. Explain in plain language why long-term risperidone and night temazepam are being reviewed; summarise mortality/stroke concerns with antipsychotics in dementia without causing panic; outline non-drug approaches for calling out; describe a supervised taper and what happens if severe aggression returns; check understanding. Examiner plays the daughter. ^[1][2][3]