Traditional CRM, social CRM and analytics are steadily being redistributed from a 90%/9%/1% split at the turn of the century to a 70%/20%/10% allocation near the end of this year. While the CRM software industry is a mature market, plenty of upside remains.
Confused, dazed and can't remember things? While these symptoms can be caused by Alzheimer's and other types of dementia, there could be another, possibly reversible, cause: medication. Too many medicines, called polypharmacy, can affect your ability to think clearly, remember and make appropriate decisions.
For example, some studies failed to take into account that some anticholinergic drugs are used to treat depression and insomnia, which can be early warning signs of dementia. If you don't account for that, it looks like the medication is causing the dementia, while it's really those symptoms that are causing that anticholinergic use, Gray said. In the new study, Gray and her colleagues looked at data from the prospective Adult Changes in Thought study, which includes patients from Group Health, a health-care delivery system in Seattle.