Medications Used in Dementia: What Caregivers Should Know | Sarah Mourra MD | UCLAMDChat

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  • Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
  • UCLA Geriatric Psychiatrist Sarah Mourra MD, discusses the variety of medications used in patients with dementia, their side effects, indications, and benefits. She also focuses on information that caregivers should know.
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  • @sunlife1587
    @sunlife1587 5 років тому +9

    This is the best and most informative presentation I have seen, as a caregiver 24/7 for my MIL with Dementia we have experienced first hand the side effects
    Of some of these medications. Navigating through the pharmacology has been our biggest issue. This video should be in the handout when a loved one is diagnosed with Dementia. Thank you.

    • @marisafuentes4895
      @marisafuentes4895 4 роки тому +5

      I couldn't agree more. All caregivers should listen and take note. My grandmother has Dementia and takes many medications due to Diabetes, cardiovascular and the list goes on. Some neurologists practicing do not take the time to review medication lists before prescribing the next med. For a geriatric patient, that should be the first thing to review. Thankfully, our pharmacist has caught these hiccups that have to do with interfering with blood pressure medications. Has anyone tried CBD oil with their loved one with Dementia? You hear about all the great things it can provide but have not read how it could interact with a Dementia patient. We're just SO over the pharmaceuticals and the numerous side effects they cause.

    • @chynnadoll1999
      @chynnadoll1999 2 роки тому +1

      I absolutely agree! It should be!!!

  • @repenthouse
    @repenthouse 4 роки тому +6

    Perfect!.. Thank you for this information it just solidifies my thoughts on Dementia and what to do for our loved ones!

  • @juliebutler8241
    @juliebutler8241 2 роки тому +11

    Medical marijuana is better and safer. I know. My mom had dementia and only that helped her sundowners and gave us both quality of life till she passed away naturally.

  • @britstickle5698
    @britstickle5698 3 роки тому +8

    I’m an RN in a nursing home and this is very interesting and helpful. Also, my mom has dementia and she takes some of these medications.

    • @JesusSaves7012
      @JesusSaves7012 Рік тому +1

      Do they help her?

    • @britstickle5698
      @britstickle5698 Рік тому +1

      @@JesusSaves7012 yes. My mom has taken dementia medicine for 21 years and she still walks 4 miles a day with her caregiver. She also eats vegetarian food and vegetables.

  • @rockylosco5596
    @rockylosco5596 5 років тому +17

    I must be proactive and not let my depression get me down ,I must find help for my dad

    • @sad-qy7jz
      @sad-qy7jz 3 роки тому +2

      Look into art therapy. I’m getting my cert and working with dementia patients and the results I’ve seen are jaw dropping

  • @nainad8683
    @nainad8683 4 роки тому +3

    Great Content Dr Sarah! Very informative for exam. Thank you

  • @chynnadoll1999
    @chynnadoll1999 2 роки тому +2

    So much good information. Thank you!!!

  • @anca4ever414
    @anca4ever414 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you very much for your video, it helped a lot

  • @djondjon
    @djondjon 2 роки тому +4

    Important information. But it would be important to analyse combinations of a mixture of drugs. It is unreal to assume that medications/chemicals isolate themselves and don't combine and form new, unknown 'meds'. We know some pharmaceuticals are dangerous together, but who has studied the potential impact of, say, a combination of 15-25 different meds?

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +1

    I love your power points

  • @Theforsakenmedia
    @Theforsakenmedia 3 роки тому +5

    When they're already dying and have dementia, give them opioids and benzodiazepines. Make them comfortable. Make them euphoric. Ffs they're gonna die anyways, why prolong their misery?

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +3

    Could you send some info for anxiety and small veins in general. I have lost youth to over sedation. 17 years a sleep awake 5 hours a day.

  • @georgiannfibbe6026
    @georgiannfibbe6026 6 років тому +11

    ANTICOLINERGIC ALL OF THESE with the exception of wellbutrin are dangerous, cause memory loss

    • @Theforsakenmedia
      @Theforsakenmedia 3 роки тому +5

      And death. Antipsychotics killed my grandma and the fda specifically says not to prescribe antipsychotics to the elderly.

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +2

    I am getting over PTSD right now.

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +2

    I'm very smart when I'm not emotionally hurt.

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому

    Valuim helps deal with stressful people for me.

  • @brandonpowell1613
    @brandonpowell1613 2 роки тому +1

    My grandma was given Rivastigmine patch when she didn't even have dementia. Now her mind is all messed up.

    • @djondjon
      @djondjon 2 роки тому +1

      Sadly, I think a lot of patients are prescribed meds that they don't need, and end up paying the consequences of it. Too many physicians have poor diagnostic skills and/or are too lazy, too uninformed, too busy, and/or have egos that lead them to assume and not appropriately, thoroughly assess.

  • @amreshyadav2758
    @amreshyadav2758 4 місяці тому

    Good lecture ❤

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому

    I have good vision regularly on my mix not so much!!

  • @rcassia
    @rcassia 3 роки тому +1

    Those drugs for Alzeimer (Aricept and Memantine) can be used for vascular dementia?

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому

    I also had policythemia

  • @lolepere2568
    @lolepere2568 2 роки тому

    Please tell me where to get the log that you mentioned. I JUST found your site and desperately need this help

  • @timwong580
    @timwong580 Місяць тому

    No pain no gain! Help me please, psychomeds hurt when you don’t take them.

  • @phillipweissburg1882
    @phillipweissburg1882 2 роки тому +1

    Took it for the first time today...DISASTER...had within hours severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea ,,,,I am done with it. You don't mention this and the pharmacy did not nor did my doctor..

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +4

    Psychotic meds hurt !!!

  • @MLT791
    @MLT791 2 роки тому

    Delta 8 CBD gymmies work great for sleep & they're legal in all states. Melatonin10 mg.

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +1

    What improves the elastics of veins.

  • @dgmnhn2098
    @dgmnhn2098 2 роки тому

    Thanks a lot , Madame !!!

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +1

    My left atrium feels week .I'm 40 I need prevention. And a natural way to treat this. I do not know if geodon did not work. Respiridone dangerously constipate,for me. Ability suddenly started working for me. And lamictal. I found I have a egg protein allergy that made things awful 😭

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому

    I have always had a high motabolism.

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +2

    I am depressed around eratic people

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +2

    Respiridone messes with the pituitary wrong. Hormone rage.

  • @jeannettebos5766
    @jeannettebos5766 2 роки тому

    Can b6 and 10mg melatonin at nite be used with trazadone drug fir sleep

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +1

    What about vitamin E with vitamins like C

  • @mdshahil1317
    @mdshahil1317 4 роки тому +2

    Hello sir. my child has not been developing any kind of intelligence for long 17 years. Please if you can give advice to increase the level of intelligence of my child I will be grateful to you. Your page follower.. Thank you

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому

    What do you do if your veins are to small.

  • @patriciaspangler5270
    @patriciaspangler5270 Рік тому

    My husband has dementia he is on hospice he had started pacing back and forth so he was given lorazepam to calm him down but instead, it worked opposite he could not focus they up his medication 2 lorazepam and 2 quetiapine morning and night this works the opposite on him he is 83yrs and I am 81 yrs his caregiver what can I do he would keep getting up out of bed

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +1

    I want to live on a seafood diet and can't 😭

  • @678BUMPERLOVER
    @678BUMPERLOVER 6 років тому +4

    What are the dangerous and fatal side effects of these medications ?

    • @myalzheimersstory4165
      @myalzheimersstory4165 6 років тому +2

      Find side effects of haloperidol (Haldol), risperidone (Risperdal), and quetiapine (Seroquel) here: myalzheimersstory.com/?s=side+effects

    • @echase416
      @echase416 4 роки тому +1

      Falls risk, orthostatic hypotension risk, Delirium, are some.

    • @sad-qy7jz
      @sad-qy7jz 3 роки тому +1

      @@echase416 also interactions, resp depression, and serotonin syndrome

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому

    Ability 20 mg help with two hundred of lamictal alone.

  • @obbykalinda8515
    @obbykalinda8515 7 місяців тому

    My daddy had a stroke in February of 2023 ,but he is losing memory, how would you help us?

  • @dianelindenberger6941
    @dianelindenberger6941 3 роки тому

    what about Remeron?

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +1

    So organ cleanses help.

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +1

    I have to have three Omega threes to function well.

    • @djondjon
      @djondjon 2 роки тому

      It's not so much the number of "pills" taken, but the dosages. Three of one dosage might be more than, equal to, or even less than another dosage.

  • @rockylosco5596
    @rockylosco5596 5 років тому +1

    Never thought I’d see the day when I was thankful just to see my dad take a drink of water on his own 🥺😰😭😢😡,maybe I’ll grieve myself to death before dementia kills him praise be to God that Jesus is with me in this,in all this misery may God somehow get the glory out of it,I’d rip my soul out and die and go to hell just to save my dads soul from hell cause he’s not saved, but sadly it don’t work this way

  • @rcassia
    @rcassia 3 роки тому

    With all due respect, are you talking about Alzeimer or all dementias? It is not clear. It's frustrating not to know.

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому

    Saroquil helps people who use drugs come down like acids.

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому

    Can you send me the pdf

  • @biddibee3526
    @biddibee3526 5 років тому +2

    I'd like to know how you suggest getting dementia patients off of resperidone once they've been on it for almost a year. I've read that taking patients off of this drug is often worse than leaving them on it.

    • @renehay77
      @renehay77 5 років тому

      My mother's dr is considering a trial of risperdal for sleep. Why do you want to stop it?

    • @echase416
      @echase416 4 роки тому +3

      Rene Hay Ask if she can try melatonin. It’s much safer.

    • @sad-qy7jz
      @sad-qy7jz 3 роки тому +2

      @@renehay77 I don’t think I’ve met anyone who enjoys it... most people feel like they’re crawling out of their skin. Hope it helped your family

  • @user-lj8xi2dk9z
    @user-lj8xi2dk9z 10 місяців тому

    Can you take CBD instead of aricept and namenda

  • @rockylosco5596
    @rockylosco5596 5 років тому +3

    You don’t wanna know the hell I feel

  • @goobergirl335
    @goobergirl335 2 роки тому

    What about cbd oil

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +1

    My brain feels like it's on 🔥 sometimes.

  • @SunilKumarplanet
    @SunilKumarplanet 5 років тому +3

    Very informative video. In Ayurveda, there is a treatment of Ayurveda without any side effects. Planet Ayurveda offers Medhya Churna and Memory Support Capsules which are very useful in the treatment of dementia.

    • @tenishavlogs
      @tenishavlogs 5 років тому

      Hello sir ...is it useful incase of dementia ?please reply me sir

    • @SunilKumarplanet
      @SunilKumarplanet 5 років тому +1

      @@tenishavlogs Yes, this churna is very useful for dementia and memory loss related issues. This churna should be taken in very less quantity.

    • @tenishavlogs
      @tenishavlogs 5 років тому

      Thank u sir ...it s available from

    • @tenishavlogs
      @tenishavlogs 5 років тому

      My father suffering with this Alzheimer's...he s unable to spoke..bed retain..my family had a lot of pain about my father pls help me sir

    • @SunilKumarplanet
      @SunilKumarplanet 5 років тому

      @@tenishavlogs You can order Planet Ayurveda' s products online from Planet Ayurveda website. www.planetayurveda(dot)com

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому

    Atavan does nothing for me. I'm excited about being awake. I just need to acclimate to the news and weird scary movies.

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +1

    I could hardly function.

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +1

    Small amount of coffie

  • @babyblue61549
    @babyblue61549 2 роки тому

    Would u Ever use oxycodone for a patient with dementia?

    • @trinket2fine
      @trinket2fine 2 роки тому +1

      no!

    • @babyblue61549
      @babyblue61549 2 роки тому

      @@trinket2fine thank u. My mother was so heavily sedated when they moved her into
      Memory care she never woke up in 3 days!! Then she passed. She was only 78. They Never even changed her clothing! And they lied to us when we called the first day because we couldn’t get there to see her. When we asked how she was they said “Oh she’s doing great! She’s in the dining room eating with everyone “! And then later they said she was in watching a movie with all the other patients. Meanwhile they blatantly lied as she Never even got out of her bed for three days! My sister went the next day and got into bed with her to hold her and let her know she was there. Her breathing was extremely labored. My sister called an ambulance and they came out and she had died before they got there. Plus the memory care facility told my sister NOT to call an ambulance! My sister did not listen but it was too late😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔😡

  • @tonytherrien6100
    @tonytherrien6100 10 місяців тому

    Geeez, Im praying for dementia .....I hope I forget all the gold digging, hoes cheating, and blood sucking, best be forgotten !..... Nobody warned me about this crap in school !

  • @leemccutchan3371
    @leemccutchan3371 2 роки тому

    volume too low

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +2

    Co10

  • @havenlyshamblin9033
    @havenlyshamblin9033 5 років тому +1

    Topamax is awful.

  • @georgiannfibbe6026
    @georgiannfibbe6026 6 років тому +5

    ZOLOFT CAUSES MEMORY LOSS

    • @biddibee3526
      @biddibee3526 5 років тому +1

      Georgiann Fibbe really my dad has a TBI and mixed dementia ( Alzheimer's, Lewy body dementia and ftd ) the Dr put him on Zoloft. Do you have a link to show this? Thank you.

    • @barbaramoore3110
      @barbaramoore3110 5 років тому

      Too long getting to the results got bored listing

  • @rogerokelley
    @rogerokelley 2 роки тому

    No one answers questions in these comments 👎👎👎

  • @biddibee3526
    @biddibee3526 5 років тому +2

    I'm 44:14 into this video and I have to stop listening. Too many ahhh and umms for me.