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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

When agitated dementia patients wander or shout through the night, families and caregivers understandably feel the need to treat this frightening and potentially dangerous behavior. Antipsychotic ...

Conventional treatments of Alzheimer's disease, one of the most common forms of dementia, have been largely focused on ...

Dementia is “one of the biggest health and social care crises we’re facing globally.” This the warning of Richard Oakley, associate director of research and innovation at leading UK charity ...

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