{"id":12917,"date":"2024-05-14T14:59:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T14:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=12917"},"modified":"2024-06-28T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:02:34","slug":"inappropriate-medication-use-persists-in-older-adults-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/inappropriate-medication-use-persists-in-older-adults-with-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Inappropriate Medication Use Persists in Older Adults With Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By Heidi Splete<\/p>\n<p>Source Medscape<\/p>\n<p>Medications that could have a negative effect on cognition are often used by older adults with dementia, based on data from approximately 13 million individuals presented at the\u00a0American Geriatrics Society (AGS) 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Classes of medications including anticholinergics, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, and non-benzodiazepine sedatives (Z drugs) have been identified as potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) in patients with dementia, according to the American Geriatrics Society\u00a0Beers Criteria\u00a0for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/s\/viewarticle\/inappropriate-medication-use-persists-older-adults-dementia-2024a100094k?ecd=WNL_pcp_AGS-SPON_240518_MSCPEDIT_etid6524177&amp;uac=362093AT&amp;impID=6524177\"> https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/s\/viewarticle\/inappropriate-medication-use-persists-older-adults-dementia-2024a100094k?ecd=WNL_pcp_AGS-SPON_240518_MSCPEDIT_etid6524177&amp;uac=362093AT&amp;impID=6524177<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Heidi Splete Source Medscape Medications that could have a negative effect on cognition are often used by older adults with dementia, based on data from approximately 13 million individuals presented at the\u00a0American Geriatrics Society (AGS) 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting. Classes of medications including anticholinergics, antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, and non-benzodiazepine sedatives (Z drugs) have been identified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-cancer-metabolic-syndrome-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12919,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions\/12919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}