Not sure what medications you learned this week. but, psychiatric medications are not used with patients with dementia because it advances their deterioration.
alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia in which plaques and tangles develop in the patient’s brain, which deteriorates the brain. it is only definitively diagnosable during autopsy.
it is important to have an understanding of medications to know what actually helps patients with alzheimer’s, and what will not further progress the disease.
