{"id":25426,"date":"2026-01-15T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/119452-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:12:00","slug":"119452-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=25426","title":{"rendered":"Risky Drugs Still in the Mix for Dementia Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clf1.medpagetoday.com\/media\/images\/119xxx\/119452.jpg\" \/> (MedPage Today) &#8212; One in four dementia patients received a potentially inappropriate drug prescription, an analysis of Medicare claims data suggested.<br \/>\nOverall, 25.1% of people with dementia and 21.7% of those with other forms of cognitive impairment&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/neurology\/dementia\/119452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.medpagetoday.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MedPage Today) &#8212; One in four dementia patients received a potentially inappropriate drug prescription, an analysis of Medicare claims data suggested. Overall, 25.1% of people with dementia and 21.7% of those with other forms of cognitive impairment&#8230; Source: www.medpagetoday.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[2582,4243,12316,12856,14311],"class_list":["post-25426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-dementia","tag-drugs","tag-mix","tag-patients","tag-risky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}