About Combination Therapy

Since the person you are caring for is already taking a prescribed Alzheimer's medicine, you have already done a great deal toward helping to treat this difficult illness. However, because Alzheimer's is a progressive disease, you may be wondering what more you can do to treat its symptoms. Fortunately, there is an option.

Combination therapy – adding Namenda^® (memantine HCl)* to another Alzheimer's medication, Aricept^® (donepezil) – may do more to treat the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.¹

Combining medications to increase benefits is not a new concept in healthcare. To treat conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure, doctors often combine medications so patients derive benefits from drugs that target different aspects of the disease.

Here is what you should know about combination therapy with Namenda:

• Namenda has been used to treat more than 2 million people worldwide, both on its own and in combination. ²
• Namenda, in combination with Aricept, is clinically proven to do more to help treat the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease than by just using Aricept alone. ¹
• Namenda works in a different way than other Alzheimer's medications, which means it targets a different aspect of Alzheimer's disease. ^3-8 This is why it is used in combination therapy.

Explore this section to learn more about combination therapy with Namenda and how it may help treat the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in the person you are caring for.