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Background: Studies show risks in the psychopharmacological care of older people with long-term care needs. In developing recommendations on the handling of psychotropic drugs in outpatient long-term care, the perspective of care professionals has so far received only sporadic attention., Objective: The study aims to explore perspectives in outpatient care on the use of psychopharmaceuticals in the care of older people in need of long-term care. The importance of the topic, problems in dealing with it, priorities of measures as well as knowledge and distribution of instruments are examined., Methods: An online survey was used to interview personnel in leading positions in a random sample of 20% (n = 2957) of the 15,138 outpatient long-term care facilities licensed with a care contract in 2019. Statistical data analysis and content analysis of answers to open questions was conducted., Results: A total of 212 questionnaires was completed (7.2% response rate), 87.2% of the respondents evaluated the importance of dealing with psychotropic drugs as high and 46.2% were confronted with problems related to psychotropic drugs in their own work. Participants located problems predominantly with physicians (53.1%), but also with patients (19.6%), nursing staff (11.2%) and caring relatives (6.1%). The use of measures varied. Cooperation with physicians and-with less priority, but still important-the qualification of nursing staff and the involvement of caring relatives were named as central fields of action., Conclusion: The heterogeneity of experiences and initial conditions regarding the handling of psychotropic drugs in outpatient long-term care should be taken into account when developing corresponding recommendations for action and implementation concepts., (© 2021. Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature.)

Background: Studies show a variety of risks associated with psychotropic medication for older people in need of long-term care in Germany. In inpatient care, nursing has important tasks when dealing with psychotropic drugs, such as placement and administration, patient observation and communication with doctors., Aim of Study: The study examined experiences and assessments of the handling of psychotropic drugs in inpatient care from the perspective of managers., Method: Reported are the results of an online survey conducted in 2019 among heads of inpatient care facilities on the handling of psychiatric drugs in care of older people. Statistical data analysis was performed, open questions were additionally evaluated by content analysis., Results: The response rate was 7.9 %. Respondents' assessments regarding the handling of psychotropic drugs and also the perception of care problems were heterogeneous. Specialist care, cooperation with doctors and the qualification of caregivers were given high priority for the handling of psychotropic drugs. Selected means in dealing with psychotropic drugs were used by a small proportion of the respondents and were not known to all of them., Discussion: Further research is needed on the different assessment of the use of psychotropic drugs and the different use of concepts and instruments. Ensuring communication between the professional groups will continue to be of great importance in the future. Challenges are the presumably increasing shortage of specialists/doctors but also the shortage of nursing staff., (© 2021. Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature.)