Anticholinergic medicines use among older adults before and after initiating dementia medicines.
Sujita W NarayanSallie-Anne PearsonMelisa LitchfieldDavid G Le CouteurNicholas BuckleyAndrew J McLachlanHelga ZoegaPublished in: British journal of clinical pharmacology (2019)
Use of anticholinergic medicines is common among patients initiating dementia medicines and this occurs against a backdrop of widespread campaigns to reduce irrational medicine combinations in this vulnerable population. Decisions about deprescribing medicines with questionable benefit among patients with dementia may be complicated by conflicting recommendations in prescribing guidelines.