Antibiotics Overused in Patients with Dementia

February 26, 2008 by MedHeadlines
Filed under Alzheimer's Disease, Drugs, Elderly Care, Prevention

According to the report published in the February 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, more than 5 million Americans have dementia. And about 70 percent of them will live in nursing homes at the end of their lives. Recurrent infections and fever are common among these patients, who may receive antibiotics to treat these conditions. Read more

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