Selection and Progress of drugs for treating Dementia

Abstract

Dementia is a major health problem among the elderly around the world; the number of dementia patients, as well as antidementia drugs, has been increasing in recent years. In this paper, we searched the dementia treatment guidelines, domestic and foreign literature reports in the past five years, summarized the classification of dementia, the selection of current pharmacotherapies in dementia, evidence-based evaluation of guidelines and some drugs with clinical treatment prospects to provide a reference for the decision-making of dementia drug therapy.