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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

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So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. Does a good history matter anymore?

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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Emmy: That, to me, is the ideal checkup-type situation. And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. Somebody who’s older, maybe just diagnosed them with very mild dementia. ” Eric: Oh. Absolutely.

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