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General Internal Medicine • Geriatric Medicine • Dementia • General Geriatric Medicine • General Primary Care
In an older adults with dementia-related behavioral symptoms refractory to nonpharmacological management in whom you are starting SSRI, do you ever consider a short course of antipsychotic medication to overlap with the initiation of SSRI while waiting for therapeutic effect?
And if so, how would you advise on choice of agent/dosing considerations?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
The American Geriatric Society recommends that antipsychotics may be considered when behaviors do not respond to non-pharmacological management and the patient is at risk of harming themselves or others. Thereby, it may be reasonable to overlap short-term antipsychotic with SSRI initiation in older ...
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