The number of older people, including those living with dementia, is rising, as younger age
mortality declines. However, the age-specific incidence of dementia has fallen in many …

Executive summary Acting now on dementia prevention, intervention, and care will vastly
improve living and dying for individuals with dementia and their families, and in doing so …

Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia include agitation, depression, apathy,
repetitive questioning, psychosis, aggression, sleep problems, wandering, and a variety of …

Importance Antipsychotic medications are associated with increased mortality in older adults
with dementia, yet their absolute effect on risk relative to no treatment or an alternative …

… C enter and C enter for I nnovative C are in A ging sponsored and convened a multidisciplinary
expert panel in D etroit, M ichigan, in fall 2011 with three objectives: to define critical …

Behavioral symptoms such as repetitive speech, wandering, and sleep disturbances are a
core clinical feature of Alzheimer disease and related dementias. If untreated, these behaviors …

Objective: The use of antipsychotics to treat the behavioral symptoms of dementia is associated
with greater mortality. The authors examined the mortality risk of individual agents to …

Objective: Mortality rates in the year following new antipsychotic medication starts for
neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia were compared with rates after starts of other psychiatric …

Psychosis is a common and distressing symptom in people with Alzheimer disease, and few
safe and effective treatments are available. However, new approaches to symptom …

Objectives:Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are nearly universal
in dementia, a condition occurring in more than 40 million people worldwide. BPSD …