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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.
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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.
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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.
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Neural plasticity in the context of normal aging and dementia can be evaluated on a number of levels...
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When it comes to dementia much of the focus is related to diagnosis and treatment(s). A terminal phase is not...
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