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A recent study showed that memantine, a medicine approved to treat moderate-to-severe Alzheimer’s, significantly slows cognitive decline and reduces the need for caregiving by 45.8 hours per month.
Reisberg, Barry, Rachelle Doody, Albrecht Stöffler, Frederick Schmitt, Steven Ferris, and Hans Jörg Möbius. Memantine in Moderate-to-Severe Alzheimer’s Disease. New England Journal of Medicine. 2003; 348(14): 1333-41. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/348/14/1333?hits=20&where=fulltext&andorexactfulltext=and&searchterm=reisberg&sortspec=Score%2Bdesc%2BPUBDATE_SORTDATE%2Bdesc&excludeflag=TWEEK_element&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT