title: Medication and Dementia Medication and Dementia Gurling Karen Kelly Joan Rodrigucz Cesar Dementia Services Development Centre University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA Tel: 01786467740 32pp £5.50 1 85769 133 4 1857691334.
abstract: Beginning with a description of dementia, this booklet also differentiates it from acute confusional states and introduces some features of medication which are common to older people. The presentation of drug treatments for dementia incorporates National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines but was not sufficiently honest about the lack of efficacy of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. Also, the language here became less amenable to lay people who could derive considerable benefit from this book.