019 – Most Common Types of Dementia in Aging Parents

In This Episode:

Dr. K explains every major type of dementia, how doctors actually tell them apart, and what the new Alzheimer’s blood tests can and cannot tell you.

She covers:

• What Dementia Actually Means
• The Five Most Common Types of Dementia
• How Doctors Identify the Type
• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Cerebrovascular Disease
• Lewy Body Disease
• LATE and Hippocampal Sclerosis
• Other Causes of Dementia
• Why Mixed Dementia Is Most Common
• The New Alzheimer’s Blood Tests
• What the Blood Tests Miss
• Treatment Options for Different Dementia Types
• A Geriatrician’s Approach
• What Actually Helps Most

Related episode: 

• 016 – Medications for Sundowning: What Dementia Caregivers Should Know

Related Resources:

• • Beyond Alzheimer’s: Common Types of Dementia in Aging
  • Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE): consensus working group report
  • 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