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Medication & Cognition
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CE:1.5
Description
This course is designed to provide the audience with the most up-to-date information on those psychotropic medications often misused in older adults. The course will cover identification of the medications in the classes of antipsychotics, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, stimulants, cognitive enhancers, and acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. The audience will be provided information on the indications for the use of these classes of medications and their most common adverse effects, particularly as experienced by older adults especially those with dementia. Finally, the course will provide the audience with a summary of the BEERS criteria and other initiatives that have attempted to reduce the use of potentially inappropriate medications in the population of older adults.
After the webinar, participants will be able to:
- Describe the most commonly used psychotropic drugs in the elderly.
- Discuss the difference between the current use of psychotropic drugs versus their FDA indications.
- Explain the most frequently encountered adverse effects of the currently used psychotropic drugs, especially the impact on cognition.
- Discuss the effectiveness of psychotropic medications in treating psychiatric/behavioral disorders of the elderly including risk / benefit ratios.
Instructional Level: Intermediate