97| Medications for Memory Loss in Older Adults – A Conversation With Dr. Matthew Growdon
Navigating Neuropsychology
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Colonness Race - The Challenge of Trials
A lot of the colonness race literature is quite old like these studies were done many, many years ago and a lot of them were funded by the pharmaceutical industry. There was a non-parma funded study that looked at some other outcomes things like delaying nursing home admission which we think about as something in geriatrician world. The medications don't unfortunately, at least in that study show a benefit in terms of delaying nursingHome admission. So they do, the studies have been shown to kind of change these smaller parameters around like a few points on the cognitive test or in the neuropsych inventory but none of those kind of big life changing events like in terms of where people need to live and
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