Sunday, February 12, 2012

Your Top Alzeheimer's Questions Answered

Over the last months, we have had some interesting and provocative comments from our readers and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for both reading this blog and taking the time to put their thoughts into words and replying. Also, I would like to address some of the important issues...
3/12/09 12:15pm

Thanks for lots of answers! Super article to digest.

Carol

Anonymous
pinky
12/ 8/09 3:52pm

Hello Dr Roeltgen,

its very good to see you here. this is pinky and i trained under you for a brief period...

1/20/10 7:30pm
I was diagnosed with dementia 12-31-2009 and I am only 42 years old. I am overwhelmed and not sure what to do. I have done some reading but get disinterested after a few minutes. Have you had a patient diagnosed this young? If so, what kind of prognosis did you give them? Any information will be helpful. Thanks, Swanny
7/14/10 12:42pm

My comment is that this blog is deeply informative and helps ward off misunderstandings of AD diagnosis, etc. I had originally googled 'Stroke and Alzheimers. meaning "I thought that 7 years ago after my stroke at 49 that I had heard of a connection between stroke and AD occurence afterwords.

Trying to establish a comfort zone to not needlessly worry about the future of my intellectual functioning. Any Thoughts?

12/ 3/10 9:10am

Does anyone know the answer to this?

 

My husband's mother has dementia (taking memantine and donepezil for several years now). She cannot be without direct supervision of her husband, who has multiple physical health issues. We are considering that my husband should establish guardianships/conservatorships/health care POA, etc. in the event we need to move her to our state (they live in midwest, we are in the deep south). Because no one has ever told her that she has dementia (they say it would hurt her feelings; she thinks her medicines are vitamins), she supposedly doesn't know why she cannot drive, cook, bathe, choose her clothes, etc. So, if she were to sign guardianship/conservatorship/POA papers, would she not need to be told WHY? If not, do we really have informed consent? If we have no informed consent, would any respectable attorney let her sign them? If her spouse dies, would she become a ward of whatever state they were visiting at that time (they travel some) or of her state if he dies at home? Would we have no ability to move her to live with us? Additional thoughts are welcome as well.

Anonymous
Steve Scott
1/29/12 6:44pm

Dr. Roeltgen. The 2010 study by Xiang and Cox may be pertinent to your comments with regards to beta blockers and Alzheimer's. I can't access the study directly but a summary is included here. http://news.illinois.edu/news/10/0420target.html

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