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Caregiving
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- Health and Wellbeing of the Caregiver
- Home Safety Adjustments
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Alzheimer’s Anticholinergic
Medications
Most drugs used to treat Alzheimer's, and those under investigation, are aimed at slowing progression. There are no cures to date. In addition, the improvements from some of these drugs may be so modest that patients and their families may not notice benefit.
There are currently two drug classes that have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat the cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer's disease:
- Cholinesterase inhibitors (generally used to treat...
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