A sudden drop in thinking or behavior in someone with dementia should prompt a medical evaluation rather than an assumption that the disease is simply advancing, according to a Boca Raton Tribune opinion column by Jennifer Maxine Cappel, a nurse practitioner who runs an integrative psychiatry practice in West Palm Beach.
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Sudden dementia changes may signal a UTI or delirium, not decline
A Boca Raton nurse practitioner says a sudden shift in a dementia patient's thinking or behavior warrants a medical check for treatable causes such as urinary tract infections.
