Helping Your Patients Navigate Dementia Trials

My name is Richard Isaacson. I direct the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill-Cornell Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian. Today we're going to present a case and try to walk you through some of the salient points about how to provide the best optimal care for Alzheimer's management.

A 62-year-old man comes in for a second opinion for previously diagnosed mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease. This is a physician who retired a couple of years ago. About a year or two ago, he started noticing that he had some trouble remembering some of the facts of cases that were being presented to him on rounds. He worked in an academic setting. While he still could give diagnoses and interact with patients and medical students, he felt that as the cases were being presented to him, he couldn't remember some of the most important facts. In addition, he felt that in terms of his attention to detail, it wasn't as sharp as it should be for a practicing clinician. It's one of the reasons why he decided to retire a little bit earlier than he was anticipating.

He comes to me with a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease.