Reduction of the Anticholinergic Burden Makes It Possible to Decrease Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia

Autor: Jaïdi, Yacine, Nonnonhou, Vignon, Kanagaratnam, Lukshe, Bertholon, Laurie Anne, Badr, Sarah, Noël, Vivien, Novella, Jean-Luc, Mahmoudi, Rachid
Zdroj: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: Official Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry; March 2018, Vol. 26 Issue: 3 p280-288, 9p
Abstrakt: •Reducing the anticholinergic burden makes it possible to decrease frequency and severity of BPSD among elderly people with dementia.•Reducing the anticholinergic burden in relatively autonomous subjects (ADL ≥ 3) brings about a reduction of the occupational disruptiveness of the BPSD on the caregivers.•Anticholinergic burden could participate in the occurrence or the maintenance of the BPSD, and could thus constitute a potential avoidable cause.
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