Post by alice on Jan 11, 2020 10:49:53 GMT -5
A disturbing perception
Doctors sometimes fail to inform patients about a dementia or Alzheimer’s diagnosis. The perception is that Alzheimer’s is incurable, so why burden the patient and their family with grim news that can’t be medically addressed? We can assume that this is one of the reasons that about half of the 5.8 million people in the United States who have Alzheimer’s disease haven’t been diagnosed, according to an Alzheimer’s Association Annual Report. Douglas Sharre, MD, director of the Division of Cognitive Neurology at The Ohio State University, specializes in cognitive disorders and has dedicated his life’s work to discovering how to diagnose, treat, and prevent conditions that cause cognitive impairment, including dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. I recently spoke with Sharre about the importance of diagnosis. “There are lots of things that cause cognitive issues that can be fixed, adjusted, [or] changed, and [for] almost any medical condition, the earlier [it's] detected the better,” Sharre said during a telephone intervie
Doctors sometimes fail to inform patients about a dementia or Alzheimer’s diagnosis. The perception is that Alzheimer’s is incurable, so why burden the patient and their family with grim news that can’t be medically addressed? We can assume that this is one of the reasons that about half of the 5.8 million people in the United States who have Alzheimer’s disease haven’t been diagnosed, according to an Alzheimer’s Association Annual Report. Douglas Sharre, MD, director of the Division of Cognitive Neurology at The Ohio State University, specializes in cognitive disorders and has dedicated his life’s work to discovering how to diagnose, treat, and prevent conditions that cause cognitive impairment, including dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. I recently spoke with Sharre about the importance of diagnosis. “There are lots of things that cause cognitive issues that can be fixed, adjusted, [or] changed, and [for] almost any medical condition, the earlier [it's] detected the better,” Sharre said during a telephone intervie
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