Risperidone elderly dementia
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Hi there. Risperidone is an atypical antipsychotic drug with certain side effects. These are sedation, dysphoria, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, muscle stiffness, muscle pain, constipation, photosensitivity and alopecia. The fall could also lead to local tissue spasm and tightness in the surrounding muscles. She needs to be seen by an orthopaedician to rule out this as an effect of injury ad also check for an missed fractures.
A UTI will not 'cause' dementia or Alzheimers, however, it can exasperate even the mildest symptoms. If a person is young (ish) and otherwise healthy and gets a UTI, that person will feel the normal symptoms of it, but someone who is elderly (although someone does not necessarily have to be 'elderly' to have Alzheimers), and suffers from dementia or Alzheimers, will have a much different experience.
My Mom is 92 years old. Has been living on her own in Elderly housing for 20 years. Her dementia consisted of repeating and repeating, forgetting who visited, etc. but went throughout her normal activities w/some services very well and very happiy. Always knew us but was starting to forget other people but after prompting she would be ok.
3 weeks ago she developed a very severe resistant UTI and then got c-dift (not sure how to spell that). Anyway ended up dilusional, confused, etc.
I’m 25, I freaked myself out and read online that dementia is more common in BD however all the things I read said in late life etc. so people who are elderly are 2-3 times more likely to get it. My concern is will having BD give me dementia in my 40s for example? So concerned!
I am being met with resistance and am concerned that the attending physician is completely in the dark about several studies regarding the negative effects of these particular drugs in elderly patients with dementia, or any helpful alternatives. Are there any alternatives to using antipsychotic medications in this case? I have a hard time believing he is being kept in this state for other than that it makes him less work for the staff. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
If anyone in your family has experienced dementia at a young age (before 65), you and other family members may be at increased risk of developing frontal lobe dementia (FTD) – also known as Pick's disease.
A new blood test may reveal your specific risk.
In 1892, Czechoslovakian neurologist Arnold Pick first documented a type of dementia in which degeneration of cells occurs in the cerebral cortex (the outer layer of the brain) where cognitive and behavioral functions are controlled.
Yor dog doesn't sleep? And she is elderly for a dog. I think it's time to see a vet... this could be a form of canine dementia.
Seroquel (the brand name for the other medication you speak of) is an antipsychotic and from what the prescription label states it should not be used in people who are elderly who have dementia but you could discuss this with a neurologist, in the meantime look up the medication website. Namenda is one of several medications that helped some family members I know who have dementia. It would be best to consult with a neurologist and discuss all this with them.
That's complex. It depends when it first started. Dementia is very clinically specific and only a neurologist could distinguish between that and psychosis though dementia usually involves forgetfulness and memory loss. I do know that elderly relatives I have that were diagnosed with dementia improved with the medication Namenda.
my husband has short term memory loss, i catch him crying,and he sleeps alot doc said could be mild cognitive impairment, or dementia,he has a clear brain scan ,never had a stroke, he also has has out of control diabetes.
I would make sure it was not neurological in origin as well because psychosis and dementia can occur in elderly people from conditions that are not psychiatric. "Impaired executive functioning" sounds more neurological in origin to me.
That is not a rare disease. Insomnia and day time sleeping are very common in the elderly. Also, you need to define what "problems's sleeping" means. Do you mean sleeps too much, sleeps to little, snores, awakes, stops breathing, etc.
Reading in a few groups of people saying they are diagnosed with dementia, May I ask please how can someone know they have dementia . It seems contradictory to the term. My psychologist friend told me once that people dont know , the people around them notice..
I am sooo scared . Both my grandmothers had some sort of decline after age 75. My paternal grandmother whose name I also share lol said some weird stuff like seeing or feeding people living under the bed and had strokes..
One of the reasons this is possible is because of the new program for obtaining medical degrees. You collect two thousand boxtops from a popular breakfast cerial, eat thirty five hot-dogs consecutavely (this is a times exercise) and must obtain a written recommendation from the Dahli Lahma.
Many sites list warnings on the use in suspected dementia patients or elderly patients. Indeed all sites that I have researched have this or a similar warning,
Begin Quote: " Risperdal is not for use in psychotic conditions related to dementia. Risperidone may cause heart failure, sudden death, or pneumonia in older adults with dementia-related conditions." End Quote. This came from a trusted and often used medication site.
my granny has dementia and is getting up stating that shes being biten she is itching on lower legs upperarms and back she scratchs till she breaks the skin and bleeds there hasnt been any changes made to her diet nor any changes as far as detergent or soap shes currently on predisone and anthismine however its not working please help
There are boxed warnings on the labels (also you could go to the medication website as well) stating to use caution about the use of antipsychotics in people who are elderly especially people with dementia. It would be worthwhile to see a neurologist who specializes in gerontology. There are medications specifically designed to treat dementia that might be able to be used without these concerns of which they would have more knowledge of.
Elderly people suffering from conditions like dementia are often pumped full of powerful meds
unfortunately it turns out, these drugs can actually increase the risk of potentially deadly pneumonia. Researchers looked at data on nearly 2,000 seniors -- 258 with pneumonia, and 1,686 without -- they found that the patients on antipsychotic meds were twice as likely to get sick.
I have worked with developmentally disabled, dementia, Alzheimer's and regular elderly patients and what I can tell you is that xxcookiexx, can be right. It may be dementia. But you shouldn't discount your own feelings. He may be just a perverted old man, who happens to have dementia. Do some research and talk to your bf. Who knows he could have been a creeper his whole life and just recently developed dementia.
s disease, and sick sinus syndrome with a pacemaker, mild to moderate dementia, and other than that no other problems. No renal failure. He goes to a senior center for people with mild to moderate dementia 3 days a week from 10:15am to 4:00pm and gets up between 8 and 8:30 on those days, I let him sleep until 11:30 or noon the other days unless he has a doctors appt. so I don't know if those 3 days a the senior center wears him out or if it has nothing to do with it.
My mother recently moved in with me due to what we believe is dementia. She is 87 years old and has always been very on the ball and able to handle her own business affairs. Now she is pretty confused, asking me over and over what day it is, and having great difficulty with normal day to day tasks. Her neurologist put her on Namenda without much of a result. Her only other medications are Warfrin, she had a stroke a few years ago, a hole behind her heart. And high blood pressrure medication.
My mother-in-law, who is 86, has some dementia and is addicted to wine. I mean really addicted. She was drinking 3 bottles an day starting at 10:00 in the morning. If she doesn't have it, she goes nuts. The doctor wants us to wean her off and we've gotten her down to 2, but we are going nuts. Does any one know how it feels when you crave alcohol and can't have. We feel terrible, but she gets really drunk and drinks all night. We don't know how to handle it.
Mum is 78 has very high anxiety, (probably due to early dementia). Trying to treat her anxiety, Dr prescribed Pristiq to which after 4 days her side effets were too much for her, showed a glimpses of calmness however would wake up feeling agitated and out of sorts. It even took 2-3 days to get over withdrawl of pristiq even from such a short period.
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