The diagnosis is given to treat residents for symptoms like restlessness and agitation. Since 2012, there's been a 70% rise in the number of nursing home residents being diagnosed with the disorder.

Nursing homes have increasingly become a provider of last resort for the nation’s most vulnerable citizens, and some of the increase in prevalence of schizophrenia diagnoses could be driven by ...

The diagnoses rose even as nursing homes reported a decline in behaviors associated with the disorder. The number of residents experiencing delusions, for example, fell to 4 percent from 6 percent .