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 …

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 …

Objective To investigate short-and long-term mortality risk associated with the use of
antipsychotics in dementia outpatients, assessing the risk over specific time frames and …

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

Background: Antipsychotic drugs are widely used to manage behavioral and psychological
symptoms in dementia despite concerns about their safety. Objective: To examine the …

ContextAtypical antipsychotic medications are widely used to treat delusions, aggression,
and agitation in people with Alzheimer disease and other dementia; however, concerns …

Background Antipsychotics are widely used to manage behavioral disorders in patients with
dementia. Recently, serious concerns have been raised about the stroke and mortality risk of …

Background Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an advisory stating
that atypical antipsychotic medications increase mortality among elderly patients. However …

It is almost ten years since the Banerjee 2009 report established that inappropriate
prescribing of antipsychotics in the elderly was occurring in the UK and such patients had an …

TREATMENT WITH ATYPICAL ANTI-psychotic drugs may cause a nearly 2-fold increase in
the rate of death in elderly dementia patients, warned the Food and Drug Administration …