[Psychopharmacological treatment of elderly patients with dementia. Recommendations and guidelines].

Behavioral-disturbed elderly patients with dementia are often treated with psychotropic drugs, frequently by doctors who only have sporadic contact with such cases. Knowledge concerning psychotic symptoms and behavioural disturbances in dementia has increased over the past years, as to a certain extent has the number of investigations of psychopharmacological therapy in demented patients. Based on results of controlled drug trials and empiric consensus among psychogeriatricians, recommendations and guidelines regarding indications for drug therapy and type of psychotropic drug suitable for the treatment of psychiatric problems in dementia are given.