Symptomatic care

Medicines and non-drug support aimed at symptoms, not at reversing the disease.

Cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine can help some people. Communication, routine, pain, sleep, and carer support often move quality of life more than a pill.

Symptomatic care: how this front works · animated schematic, not to scale

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Cholinesterase inhibitors

These older medicines can support cognitive symptoms for some people. They are not disease-modifying.

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diagnoses

Dementia (umbrella)Dementia with Lewy bodies Frontotemporal dementia Vascular dementia

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