Kim, My mother has alzheimer's and is in a "Special Care" unit in an Assisted Living place.  The psychiatrist prescribed seroquel for her.  She paced and wanted to go see her parents.  (She has always done alot of walking)  A month later I was told I needed to bring in briefs.  During the next month my mother went from walking up and down the halls to having to use a walker to being in a wheel chair and soooo afraid she was going to fall when I even hugged her in her wheel chair.  She went from going to the bathroom to total incontinence.  I know there's a progression to this disease, but that seemed awful fast to me.  She yelled at the staff, the other residents, the imaginary people sitting in the room.... They gave her more.... Finally, after about 6 months of watching my mom go downhill, I did research on this drug and called her Dr and told him to take her off.  The resident psychiatrist asked me why I would take her off.  I told him that I had read it increased mortality in elderly people.  He said, "AND?".  I did tell you this was MY MOTHER, right? 

She has been off of this for a couple of months now.  I'm not even sure she knows she ever had a wheel chair.  She walks around whenever she wants.  She decides she needs to go to the bathroom and gets up and goes.  I can whole heartedly tell you that this was NOT the drug of choice for my mother!  I am just so sorry that I am the one that had to figure it and that I didn't know more about it sooner.