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Self-care capacity and anticholinergic drug levels in nursing home patients
B W Rovner1, A David, M J Lucas-Blaustein
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
The American Journal of Psychiatry
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
The serum anticholinergic levels of 22 demented nursing home patients were related to their cognition and capacity for self-care. The patients with high anticholinergic levels had greater impairment in self-care capacity than patients with low levels.