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Reducing potential overuse of dementia drugs could lead to considerable savings
Reducing potential overuse of dementia drugs could lead to considerable savings
Dementia medications typically provide modest, short-term benefits and have no proven effectiveness beyond one year of use. Nevertheless, our findings indicate that some adults with dementia remained on these drugs for as long as a decade, increasing the potential for adverse health outcomes and costing patients and insurers nearly $20,000. As much as 90 percent of this spending occurred after drug treatment was no longer supported by clinical evidence.
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