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#268 Dementia Made Simple with Dr. Josh Uy

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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How to Communicate Memory Loss in Dimentia

When a family member brings in a loved one for a memory valuation, it is often not the happiest visit. And so when i'm communicating, i'm also communicating to them how i want them to feel about it, which is not ashamed and not afraid. So you bring that emotional context to the visit. The most difficult part of this initial visit is actually getting this chief complaint,. issues with driving, essentially, or concern with driving. If they're faster and older, it's more likely to be alzeimers dimentia because people don't get frontal temporal dimensia as easily. It's either parkinsons dimensia slash lewis bodydimensia

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