Alzheimer`s Disease: Update on Research, Treatment, and Care

  • 27-28 May 2010
  • Omni San Diego Hotel, CA, United States

Description

Objectives
  • Gain an understanding of the newest clinical research on Alzheimer s disease
  • Realize emerging methods for the diagnosis and treatment of AD such as biomarkers, imaging, and memory screening; as well as practical management of AD patients
  • Appreciate the differences between normal and Alzheimer brain tissue as seen in a video of brain autopsies
  • Demonstrate the best pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic home and facility based interventions in patient care depending on behavioral symptoms as well as cognitive function
  • Be able to describe dangers of polypharmacy in dementia patients
  • Identify lessons learned from studies of successful aging
  • Describe Genome Wide Association Studies and the future implications of personalized medicine

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Health & Medicine: Geriatrics

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