Some medicines -- both prescription and over-the-counter -- can cause delirium or dementia symptoms in otherwise healthy older people, and can seriously worsen symptoms in patients with Alzheimer's. Other medicines can cause too much drowsiness, increasing the risk of falls.
136 Drugs That Can Cause Cognitive ImpairmentDrug-induced dementia and delirium are commonly misattributed to underlying medical illness or merely to "old age." But patients (and even their doctors!) might not know that by stopping or modifying
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Anticholinergic cognitive burden scaleThis scale was developed Dr. Malaz Boustani, a researcher at the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University Center for Aging Research, and her colleagues.
A drug was given a score of 1 if it
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Prevent drug-drug interactions with cholinesterase inhibitorsMr. B, age 78, has a long history of well-controlled bipolar disorder and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia 6 months ago. He is living at home and has been taking donepezil, 10 mg/d, and lamotri
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