Senior citizen female holding bottles of prescription medicine sitting in a wheelchair.

Common Medication Prescriptions Linked to Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer's Research, Home Care

They’re already known to cause a number of short-term side effects, such as memory loss and confusion, but new research links some of the stronger anticholinergic drugs (such as those prescribed for Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, depression, and overactive bladder) to a markedly increased risk for dementia. The study involved two groups of seniors: 59,000 patients with…