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Essential tips for communicating for someone with dementia. Nationally renowned presenter Diane Waugh shares her own experiences and the mistakes she made as a caregiver for her mother.
“Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it.
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Do you recall studying for your exams? You probably do. But do you remember how you studied, how you memorized French words or the year of the American civil war? Now, that’s probably harder.
What we do know about the brain is that it gets less sharp and productive with age. In this clip from our Alzheimers and dementia series, the doctor asks Kyle example questions from a mental screening test for dementia called "the mini cognitive assessment."
There are false signs and symptoms you should know when it comes to Alzheimer's and dementia. Psychiatrist Dr. Domenick Sportelli breaks them down in this video.
Stage 3: Late Stages - Signs, symptoms and behaviors commonly seen during the third stage of dementia progression.
Stage 1: Early Stages - Signs, symptoms and behaviors commonly seen during the first stage of dementia progression.
This is an excerpt on "Patient Assessment" from the movie, Screening for Dementia. Produced by the University of Georgia's Dr. Leonard W. Poon, video by Alan Stecker of ASV Productions, and filmed at Mercer University's School of Medicine.