Dementia Medication
How Does HIV/AIDS Dementia Differ from Alzheimer's?
Infection used to be the main cause of dementia. Treatment for infections and inflammation of the central nervous system (CNS) has dramatically decreased the incidence of infection-related dementia. But there has been one infectious disease that has reversed the trend and that is HIV/AIDS. It is the statistical increase that is one of the few aspects in which HIV dementia can be compared to Alzheimer's. The big difference is that with Alzheimer's the increased incident of the disease is due to t...
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Expert & Community Posts
Learn More About Dementia Medications This Thursday
By AFA Social Services Team , Health Expert...Current and Future Medications for the Individual with DementiaThursday, 01/31/08 at 9 pm... Read more »
Study Shows Mixing Dementia Drugs with Incontinence Drugs Can Cause Decline
By Carol Bradley Bursack , Health Expert...of drugs often given, in tandem, to people with dementia - a population that also tends to... Read more »
Dementia and Incontinence Treatment: News Alert!
By Jasmine Schmidt , Health Expert...never. Here's one of the news reports: Bladder and dementia therapy may be incompatible ... Read more »
Why Cant' We All Agree on a Diagnosis?
By David Roeltgen, MD , Health Expert...his antidepressant medication rather than take the dementia medication. For those of you who... Read more »
Study Indicates Alcohol Abuse Responsible for Up to One in Four Dementia Cases
By Carol Bradley Bursack , Health Expert...treatment for his alcoholism, and then start him on dementia medication. The take-home... Read more »
Health Guide
Reversible Dementias
In my previous article I discussed five types of dementias which can occur during the elder years. In this article, I will look at certain conditions that can cause dementia-like symptoms in the... Read more »Alzheimer's Facts- From the Alzheimer's Assocation
...distinguishing Alzheimer’s disease from a related disorder. Alzheimer’s is the leading cause of dementia, a group of conditions that all gradually destroy brain cells and lead to progressive... Read more »Preventing Dementia
Research is beginning to reveal that it may indeed be possible to prevent dementia. A brief search of the internet uncovered numerous articles focusing on different ways of possibly preventing it.... Read more »Dementia
Chronic brain syndrome; Lewy body dementia; DLB; Vascular dementia Treatment The goal of treatment is to control the symptoms of dementia. Treatment depends on the... Read more »Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer's Deepens
...caregiver and journalist Dorian Martin and caregiver expert Lynne Taetzsch, author of The Bipolar Dementia Art Chronicles: How a Manic-Depressive Artist Survives Being the Primary Caregiver for... Read more »Images
Medications
...Rivastigmine is used to treat mild to moderate confusion (dementia) related to Alzheimer's... Read more »
...when this medication is used in older adults with dementia. This medication is not approved for... Read more »
...this medication is used in elderly patients with dementia. This medication is not approved for... Read more »
...when this medication is used in older adults with dementia. This medication is not approved for... Read more »
...Donepezil is used to treat mild to moderate confusion (dementia) related to Alzheimer's disease.... Read more »
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