Evidence for your Practice: Interventions for Aggressive and Agitated Behaviors in Dementia

Article for review:
Watt, J. A., Goodarzi, Z., Veroniki, A. A., Nincic, V., Khan, P. A., Ghassemi, M., ... & Straus, S. E. (2019). Comparative Efficacy of Interventions for Aggressive and Agitated Behaviors in Dementia. Ann Intern Med, 171, 633-642.

Study Aim: To summarize the comparative efficacy of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions for treating aggression and agitation in adults with dementia

Key Findings:

As compared to usual care, the following interventions were found to be more effective:

• multidisciplinary care
• massage and touch therapy
• music combined with massage and touch therapy

Read the article abstract

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