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How do you approach decision-making around initiation of osteoporosis therapy in patients with advanced dementia?

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Geriatric Medicine · Johns Hopkins

Great question, there are many things that I consider. First, I limit consideration of osteoporosis therapy to patients who have a life expectancy of 1 year or more. This is because the time to benefit from a bisphosphonate is estimated to be about 12 months (Deardorff et al., PMID 34807231). Assumi...

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