The treatment, likely to be chosen by independent experts, could have failed with already demented patients or be something new.

Agitation in demented patients is often treated with powerful antipsychotic drugs that have significant side effects, the article said.

There is no doubt that some depressed patients find more disturbed demented patients distressing.

They are most commonly used with the mentally impaired or demented patients who are likely to get out of bed without warning.

No doctor prescribes these drugs because they want to sedate demented patients.

As for hallucinations, they are common with demented patients.

Screaming, biting, kicking and punching those around them occurs in a high proportion of demented patients.

Acetyl-L-carnitine in the treatment of mildly demented elderly patients.

When he had recovered from his illness, he took an appointment as a night porter to look after demented patients.

It was developed to not only track cognitive changes in severely demented patients specifically, but to provide information to better manage those patients' behavior problems.