Systematic review of systematic reviews of non-pharmacological interventions to treat behavioural disturbances in older patients with dementia. The SENATOR-OnTop series.
Iosief AbrahaJoseph M RimlandFabiana Mirella TrottaGiuseppina Dell'AquilaAlfonso Cruz-JentoftMirko PetrovicAdalsteinn GudmundssonRoy SoizaDenis O'MahonyAntonio GuaitaAntonio CherubiniPublished in: BMJ open (2017)
A large number of non-pharmacological interventions for BPSD were identified. The majority of the studies had great variation in how the same type of intervention was defined and applied, the follow-up duration, the type of outcome measured, usually with modest sample size. Overall, music therapy and behavioural management techniques were effective for reducing BPSD.