“…The description of prescription patterns in the elderly is the topic of the third paper in this issue (Cheng et al , 2022), which reports an increase of antipsychotic use in recent years in the Taiwanese population. A positive finding is that newer and more tolerable antipsychotics are more frequently used compared with the past; however, it is concerning that a very large part of prescriptions is off-label, to patients not affected by major psychoses.…”