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How do you approach treatment of hypersomnolence in dementia?
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Geriatric Medicine · University Of California (San Francisco)
To state the obvious first that you will have had to exclude a hypoactive delirium.
And then, considerations:
1. What stage of dementia is the person in? If severe or later stages, this could be normal and physiologic given the level of cerebral atrophy and damage.
2. What type of dementia? If you t...