| Sumario: | Medicines play a key role in the management of persons with dementia by delaying cognitive decline and ameliorating the behavioural and psychological symptoms associated with dementia, when all other interventions have failed. The four guiding principles of medicines optimization: understanding the patient’s experience, evidence-based choice of medicines, ensuring safe use of medicines and making medicines optimization part of routine practice, can be systematically incorporated into the routine care of these patients resulting in improved patient outcomes and ultimately reduced cost to the NHS. This article aims to provide an overview of medicines optimization for the health professional.
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