As we have discussed many times, Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disorder. Over time skills and abilities decline. What someone with Alzheimer’s can do one week is not necessarily what he or she can do the next week. So we all must acknowledge that a time will come when the patient with Alzheimer’s... Read more
I would like to revisit three topics that I covered previously: the issue of depressive “pseudo-dementia,” the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and the fact that health care professionals do not always agree on a diagnosis.
Each week I take part in our memory disorders consensus... Read more
For the last year, I have blogged about Alzheimer’s disease. I have discussed the diagnosis, the treatment, driving issues and many related topics. One thing I have not done is put Alzheimer’s disease in the context of the body part that is failing in this disease, the brain. For many people this topic may sound... Read more
Last year I discussed
an important topic that I believe is worth revisiting. I say this because in
our weekly patient discussion, it is discussed more often than any other topic,
except for the individual diagnosis for each patient. The topic that I am
referring to is driving. For personal,
economic, social, medical and many other... Read more
In
previous blogs, in the spring of 2008 and the fall of 2007, I discussed
different behavioral strategies for which there is some support indicating that
they may help prevent or delay the mental impairments in Alzheimer’s disease. Today I would like to briefly review a couple
of those and extend the discussion.
I
have... Read more
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