Can nursing homes get 300,000 dementia patients off deadly antipsychotics?

The use of antipsychotic drugs to treat people with dementia can be deadly, but it remains a widespread practice in nursing homes across the country. Medicare claims its ratings for nursing homes create a powerful incentive to reduce the rate of antipsychotic drug use. Yet an America Tonight investigation has found dozens of five-star-rated nursing homes whose use of antipsychotics is well above the national average. In this America Tonight excerpt, Sheila MacVicar reports on a California facility where 50 percent of the residents receive antipsychotics.