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Antibiotic Use in Dementia Patients Questioned
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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 Soon after a diagnosis of dementia or Alzheimer's, patients and their families and treating physicians should discuss what types of treatment are wanted, Kennedy suggested. Would the person with dementia want to be placed on a ventilator or have a feeding tube? Would the person want to be hospitalized or medicated at the end of life?
"This needs to be done in early dementia, because the more the dementia progresses, the less they have the capacity to participate," Kennedy said.
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Learn more about end-of-life decisions for people with dementia at the Alzheimer's Association.
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Last updated 2/25/2008
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SOURCES: Erika D'Agata, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Gary Kennedy, M.D., director of geriatric psychiatry, Montefiore Medical Center, New York City; Mitchell Schwaber, M.D., M.Sc., division of epidemiology and department of consultative medicine, and Yehuda Carmeli, M.D., chief, division of epidemiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel; Feb. 25, 2008, Archives of Internal Medicine
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