The presence of fourth-year pharmacy students on inpatient mental health interdisciplinary teams was associated with more frequent interventions, patient counseling, and medication reconciliation, compared with rates for teams without a pharmacy student. Medication reconciliation was performed more consistently and accurately when the teams had a pharmacy student than when they did not.

Older veterans with depression who developed dementia were treated with antidepressants for a significantly shorter duration than matched veterans who did not develop dementia.

Periodic monitoring of glucose should be considered for patients with dementia begun on atypical antipsychotics, although aggressive monitoring may be controversial for end-stage dementia. Overall, weight reduction and improvement in lipid parameters were observed in this study. The common metabolic adverse effects noted frequently with atypical antipsychotics may not be as much of a concern with the elderly population.

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