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Jacqueline Marcell

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Author, Speaker, Radio Host
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Traveling with a Demented Elder, diagnosis

Recently I was so dismayed to see a sweet little elderly lady (obviously suffering from dementia) and her devoted adult daughter, being delayed and searched at an airport checkpoint. The daughter was a bit heavy and apparently her underwire bra kept setting off the alarm, which finally embarrassed her to tears. The mom, seeing her daughter ... Read moreChevron
posted 10/15/2008, comments (2)|
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David Roeltgen, MD

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Neurologist, Professor
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Why Cant' We All Agree on a Diagnosis?

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 moreChevron
posted 10/08/2008, comments (4)|
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Leah

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has vascular dementia
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Dementia is Like Swiss Cheese

I think that sometimes it is better to not know a diagnosis...  It seems that once a diagnosis is made, your fate seems doomed.  It is easy to get into the mode that the end is inevitable... it is easy to want to just stop living... to let the end come... the fear of the "inevitiable" is caustic.    I am sorry to be so... Read moreChevron
posted 05/22/2008, comments (16)|
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