Tag: medication
Depression, dementia and placebos – not such a bitter pill
Maybe placebos are a form of anti-depressant but psychological factors in the interaction is more important than what’s in the pill.
Medication, medication, medication
New research shows prescriptions of drugs used to treat mental disorders are on the rise.
It’s important that co-existing conditions don’t determine a person’s course of treatment
New research shows that nursing home residents with dementia who use anti-depressants are three times more likely to have a fall than nursing home residents who do not.
Nearly 150,000 people with dementia are wrongly prescribed antipsychotics
We have partnered with the Dementia Action Alliance today to call for all antipsychotic prescriptions for people with dementia to be reviewed by 31 March 2012.
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