“…4 In fact, it is a longlasting societal concern that nursing homes provide their residents with inappropriate medication and excessively administer psychotropic drugs (see e.g. Waxman, Klein, and Carner, 1985;Ruths, Straand, and Nygaard, 2001;Beers et al, 1992;Pittrow et al, 2003). Based on the same data source as used in this paper, Stroka (2013) finds significant differences in prescriptions of antipsychotics, antidepressants, and analgesics between the German in-and out-patient care sectors, which points to over-medication in nursing homes.…”