tony chicatel is staff attorney for california advocates for nursing home reform. >> they're going to tell you whether the care there is person centered, focused on the individual needs of the residents or whether the facility staff are focused on treating everyone the same, all complaints and resistance to care is something that should be medicated away. >> reporter: the fda warning he says has had little impact. >> and it's easy to call the physician and get a prescription and then give it to them and suddenly they are quiet. >> the status quo is not good. >> dr. helen kales is director of the center for positive aging. a study published of 90,000 patients of veterans administration, kales found the risk of dying from antipsychotics was much higher than was recently felt. haldol causes an spra extra death, an additional death for 27 patients with dementia. and seraquel, one more death for every 50. and the study only looked at what happened over a six month period. many nursing homes give residents with dementia these drugs for years. >> the phrase is if all you have is a hammer, ev