Dementia Discussions

A Daughter on the Alzheimer’s Journey


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Barbara is joined by Megan Dobkin on the day she learns her father is moving into the memory unit of an assisted living facility. Megan talks about how hard it was in the early days, when her father was cognizant enough to realize something was happening to his brain. She and Barbara discuss the limitations of testing for diseases like Alzheimer’s, particularly when doctors don’t have a baseline to compare their patients’ responses. Megan says one of the biggest struggles for her and her family was knowing her father changed, but not having anything show up in the tests. “Only we as a family knew where he was coming from,” she says. 

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Dementia DiscussionsBy Barbara Hament

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