Hi, I'm 37 and currently taking care of my 76 yr old dear mother who recently was diagnosed with Dementia. She started Olanzapine 5MG back in January and that medication didn't help with her dementia behavior like restlessness, obsessively going up and down the stairs, and just wanting to go outside numerous times a day. She just won't get tired, so her doctor psychiatrist increased the Olanzapine to 10MG a day. That didn't help either. So I took her to another doctor yesterday, this time to a geriatric psychiatrist and he put her on 0.5 MG of Lorazepam twice a day on top of her Olanzapine 10MG a day. Tomorrow she will start Lorazepam. My mom eats well and has no issue with walking, etc. but she is so obsessive about going outside and the stairs and just won't sit down for a good 5 min, and now she even has hand tremors. Her recent blood work all turned out great. My question is, did any of you try a good calming medication that is suitable for the elderly? I feel like I went to so many doctors and each have their own opinion and medication and I'm going crazy.
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One tool that is being used more frequently is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We don't have an exact test yet that definitively diagnoses Alzheimer's disease, but an MRI can help in a couple of different ways. It can be used to eliminate other causes for memory loss such as normal pressure hydrocephalus, a brain tumor or a stroke. Sometimes, an MRI can also find a reversible cause for cognitive decline that, with the proper treatment, can be reversed and cognitive functioning restored.2
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