Nurse on geropsychiatric unit receives call

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A nurse on the geropsychiatric unit receives a call from the caregiver of a recently discharged client. The caregiver reports that the client just got a prescription for memantine to take "on top of their donepezil." The caregiver then asks, "Why do they have to take extra medicines?" What should the nurse tell the son?

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