Researchers analyzed Medicare claims data to find that an estimated 25 percent of dementia patients were prescribed risky medications, including antidepressants and antipsychotics.

This is a prescription for disaster. While all medications carry potential side effects, certain types have been shown to increase the risk of falls, confusion and even hospitalization among older ...

Many seniors with dementia are being put at risk by brain-altering medications linked to falls, confusion and hospitalization ...

Questionable prescribing of CNS-active drugs persists ...

Dementia patients in the U.S. are still being prescribed risky stimulant medications despite longstanding warnings about their safety, new research has found. For decades, clinical guidelines have ...

For decades, dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease, was treated as untouchable. Families watched loved ones fade, doctors could offer only reassurance and coping strategies, and research seemed to ...

Dr. Scott Turner does his best to treat patients with memory disorders such as dementia. While there are treatments that may temporarily help, there's no cure for dementia, which is why a new study is ...

A drug treatment for a common type of dementia could be on the horizon after researchers discovered how high blood pressure impacts brain health in the long run. A new study has uncovered how ...

A new review of clinical trial data finds evidence that GLP-1 drugs can meaningfully reduce dementia risk in people with type 2 diabetes. Reading time 2 minutes The case for Ozempic as a dementia ...

SHANGHAI, Jan 27 (Reuters) - China's medicine regulator has ordered a halt to the import, sale and usage of a drug used to ...

These findings — from a blood test to improvements in drug delivery — may lead to better diagnosis and treatment of the ...

New study reveals around a quarter of dementia patients are prescribed risky drugs despite safety warnings - Roughly 25 percent of dementia patients were prescribed at least one ‘potentially inappropr ...