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Medication For Dementia
A study in the journal Stroke has found that hypertension medications may help prevent the onset of dementia in the elderly. Researchers followed 848 men and found that for each year of treatment with a blood-pressure drug, a patient's risk of dementia decreases by 3 percent.
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Lock Up Medication if Loved One Has Dementia
When I arrived in San Francisco from Southern California to help my elderly parents (both with early Alzheimer's-not properly diagnosed... Read more »
Watch Medications for all Elders, Particularly Those with Dementia
After my dad's brain surgery left him demented, the doctors put him on the anti-psychotic drug Haldol. He was in the hospital and we were... Read more »
How to Get Elders to Go to the Doctor and Take Their Medication
I spent Thanksgiving trying to convince my friends' elders that their short-term memory loss needs to be evaluated and treated ASAP, to... Read more »
Dementia Medications May Cause Unsettling Dreams
It was an interesting night. I slept well for a few hours and then I began to have the strangest dreams…but they weren’t action... Read more »
Learn More About Dementia Medications This Thursday
Please join us Thursday evening on Care Connection for a prerecorded discussion with Dr. Richard E. Powers, renowned expert on brain... Read more »
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Can medications cause dementia?
A reader asks Joe and Teresa Graedon of The People's Pharmacy if his mother's sudden dementia could have been brought on by the Darvocet, Lexapro,... Read more »
Dementia
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior.See also:... Read more »
Dementia
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Chronic brain syndrome; Lewy body dementia; DLB; Vascular dementia; Mild cognitive impairment; MCI TreatmentFor information on how to take care of a... Read more »
Dementia
Source: HealthCentral Encyclopedia
Dementia is a permanent decline in cognitive function and memory from a previous level of function.Dementia is a brain disorder with permanent loss... Read more »
Dementia
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Chronic brain syndrome; Lewy body dementia; DLB; Vascular dementia; Mild cognitive impairment; MCI SymptomsDementia symptoms include difficulty with... Read more »
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