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Suggest Treatment For Severe Dementia In A 78 Year Old Female

Re: my mother. 78 y/o white female. medically healthy. went from normal affect to sleeping all day and night with significant short term memory issues. Neurologist dx severe dementia and rx Aricept and Numenda.... no improvement noted. Any suggestions?
Fri, 27 Nov 2015
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Donepezil (aricep) and Memantine (Namanda) are drugs used specially in alzheimer disease. its less effective in other kind of dementias. And the effect is improvement in memory to some extent in initial stages and for 1-2 years. Theafter there is decline in memory depending on neurodegeneration in brain.
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Suggest Treatment For Severe Dementia In A 78 Year Old Female

Donepezil (aricep) and Memantine (Namanda) are drugs used specially in alzheimer disease. its less effective in other kind of dementias. And the effect is improvement in memory to some extent in initial stages and for 1-2 years. Theafter there is decline in memory depending on neurodegeneration in brain.