Anticholinergic co-prescribing in nursing home residents using cholinesterase inhibitors: potential deprescribing cascade.

Younger, healthier older adults with dementia were more likely to experience co-prescribing anticholinergics and ChEIs. Discontinuation of anticholinergics was infrequent. Further research is needed to understand prescribers' ability to recognize and reverse potential prescribing cascades through deprescribing.