Music, pets and aromatherapy should be used to calm agitated or delusional patients before turning to drugs that often prove ineffective or have unhealthy side effects, researchers said on Tuesday.After evaluating 29 studies dating to the mid-1960s, researchers at Wake Forest University said “it was discouraging to find that we currently don’t have good drug therapies (for dementia-related behaviors)."Dementia is usually associated with memory loss, but at least 60 percent of patients also suffer such symptoms as agitation, aggression, delusions, hallucinations, repetitive vocalizations and wandering, said lead researcher Kaycee Sink.
