141 – 4 Most Common Types of Dementia in Aging

In This Episode:

Dr. K goes beyond Alzheimer’s and explains what older adults and families should know about the most common types of dementia in older adults. She covers:

• The 4 most common types of dementia in older adults
• How doctors diagnose the specific type of dementia
• Mixed dementia and less common causes of dementia
• The most common early symptoms of Alzheimer’s dementia, vascular dementia, and Lewy body dementia
• Which types of dementia might be treatable
• Newer types of dementia pathology, such as LATE, hippocampal sclerosis, and cerebral amyloid angiopathy
• Dr. K’s approach to dementia type

Related episode: 

• 139 – How to Treat Mild Cognitive Impairment

Related Resources:

• Beyond Alzheimer’s: Common Types of Dementia in Aging
• Person-specific contribution of neuropathologies to cognitive loss in old age
• Religious Orders Study and Rush Memory and Aging Project
• The prevalence, correlation, and co-occurrence of neuropathology in old age: harmonisation of 12 measures across six community-based autopsy studies of dementia
• Alz.org: Mixed dementia