Brain Talk | Being Patient for Alzheimer's Patients and Caregivers

Being Patient spoke with Patti Davis, daughter of the former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and author of Floating in the Deep End: How Caregivers Can See Beyond Alzheimer's, about the memories she shared with her father and how she grew as person throughout his decade-long journey with Alzheimer's.   We rely on donations to bring you the latest research on dementia and brain health and to support our amazing team of independent journalists. Please consider donating to support of our mission of giving people impacted by dementia a better resource and connection to experts at the forefront of research. Our audience has grown so rapidly; we have exciting plans for the future to enhance our coverage even further but we need your help. Please consider making a contribution to help fund Being Patient's editorial costs. https://beingpatient.nationbuilder.com/

Being Patient speaks with Anthony Copeland-Parker, author of Running All Over the World: Our Race Against Early-Onset Alzheimer’s, about him and his partner Catherine Elizabeth Popp's nomadic lifestyle, their experience of traveling to 82 countries ever since their retirement and the couple’s pursuit of fulfilling their dreams in the face of Alzheimer’s.  For more about the couple's story: https://runningwithcat.com/   We rely on donations to bring you the latest research on dementia and brain health and to support our amazing team of independent journalists. Please consider donating to support of our mission of giving people impacted by dementia a better resource and connection to experts at the forefront of research. Our audience has grown so rapidly; we have exciting plans for the future to enhance our coverage even further but we need your help. Please consider making a contribution to help fund Being Patient's editorial costs. https://beingpatient.nationbuilder.com/

Being Patient speaks with Cindy Weinstein and Bruce Miller, authors of Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief and the Brain, about the Alzheimer's diagnosis of Weinstein’s father, and how writing, literature and neurology can enrich our understanding of dementia.  To learn more about the book by Weinstein, professor of English at the California Institute of Technology, and Miller, professor of neurology at the University of California San Francisco, visit their website: https://weinsteinandmiller.com/figures/   We rely on donations to bring you the latest research on dementia and brain health and to support our amazing team of independent journalists. Please consider donating to support of our mission of giving people impacted by dementia a better resource and connection to experts at the forefront of research. Our audience has grown so rapidly; we have exciting plans for the future to enhance our coverage even further but we need your help. Please consider making a contribution to help fund Being Patient's editorial costs. https://beingpatient.nationbuilder.com/

Being Patient speaks with Dr. Daniel Potts, neurologist at the Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs Medical Center, about the artistic talents of his late father, who found watercolor painting as a way to express early memories and life experiences after an Alzheimer's diagnosis.   For more information on the nonprofit organization Cognitive Dynamics, visit its website: https://www.cognitivedynamics.org/ For more on the artwork of Dr. Potts' father Lester E. Potts, Jr: https://www.lesterslegacy.com/   For more on Dr. Potts' poetry: https://danielcpotts.wordpress.com/

Being Patient speaks with talk show host Leeza Gibbons about her family's journey with Alzheimer's, and her mission to support caregivers through Leeza's Care Connection, a signature program of the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation.

Dr. Michael Geschwind, professor of neurology at the University of California San Francisco Memory and Aging Center, speaks about the symptoms, diagnoses and treatments of rapidly progressive dementias. 

Being Patient speaks with Arthena Caston, Mike Belleville, Geri Taylor, who are living with dementia, and Taylor's husband Jim, about the stigmas of the illness and how people can become more attuned to the realities of individuals diagnosed with dementia.

Sandra Kooij, associate professor of psychiatry at Amsterdam University Medical Center, speaks about the symptoms and treatments of ADHD in older adults and how clinicians distinguish the manifestations of the disorder from the signs of dementia.

Being Patient speaks with President and CEO of Cassava Sciences Remi Barbier about the company's development of an investigational Alzheimer's drug called simufilam, and how scientists are diversifying their approach in finding an effective treatment for the disease.

We rely on donations to bring you the latest research on dementia and brain health and to support our amazing team of independent journalists. Please consider donating to support of our mission of giving people impacted by dementia a better resource and connection to experts at the forefront of research. Our audience has grown so rapidly; we have exciting plans for the future to enhance our coverage even further but we need your help. Please consider making a contribution to help fund Being Patient's editorial costs.

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Being Patient sits down with speech-language pathologist Vicky Fukuhara to discuss the symptoms of language impairment in dementia and how speech therapy may help people cope with their decline in communication abilities.

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