Short-term use of antipsychotics in older adults with dementia linked to serious adverse events

Older adults with dementia who receive short-term courses of antipsychotic medications are more likely to be hospitalized or die than those who do not take the drugs, according to a report in the May 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Read the whole article on Physorg

More from Physorg