
In the winter and spring of 2012 I was privileged to be part of the executive working group that organized the fourth Canadian Conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia which took place in May 2012.

What I found surprising about the National Post article was that one would think after reading it that offering dying patients more choices in their end-of-life care was a novel idea...

Over the past 10 years, more progress has been made in understanding the genetics and proteinopathy underlying frontotemporal degeneration than in Alzheimer's disease.

It is always amazing when one is working in a field of medicine to discover new additions to it that are really useful and something that will change one's approach.

One of the most challenging and at the same time hopefully rewarding activities is to be the substitute decision maker (SDM) for someone important to you such as a parent.

At a time when the knowledge surrounding Alzheimer's disease and other dementias is on the one hand expanding rapidly ...
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Often in a geriatric medicine practice one of the salient complaints by families is how often their loved one tells them the same thing over and over again.

Neural plasticity in the context of normal aging and dementia can be evaluated on a number of levels...