Atypical Antipsychotics, Elderly Patients, and Mortality Risk

Abstract

Clinicians faced with the management of disturbed behavior in patients with dementia have a limited array of options. The risk of doing nothing will place the agitated patient at risk for harm to self or others, not to mention the discomfort of this often-dysphoric state. Second-generation, or atypical, antipsychotics such as olanzapine and risperidone can successfully reduce aggression and/or...