Medication risk with dementia

Published date18 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Experts said that the side effects linked to antipsychotics for dementia patients "may be more severe than previously understood"

Antipsychotic drugs may be prescribed for people with dementia who develop aggression and psychosis, but these drugs are usually only prescribed after other drugs have been tried such as antidepressants, antidementia or anticonvulsant drugs.

Experts are now calling for more to be done to reduce prescriptions after research found that people with dementia who take the drugs could be at higher risk of a number of other illness including pneumonia, bone fractures and stroke.

The new study, published in The BMJ, examined data from 174,000...

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