Daniel George and Peter Whitehouse: ..about the myths surrounding Alzheimer's and dementia

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🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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What are we doing right and what are we doing wrong when it comes to dealing with Alzheimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia? And, what should we be doing in the future?

Our guests on this episode, Daniel George and Peter Whitehouse, have a lot to say about that. Dr. George is a medical anthropologist and associate Professor at Penn State. Dr. Whitehouse is a professor of neurology at Case Western Reserve University and a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. Together, they are the co-authors of the new book, "American Dementia: Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society".

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black. New research shows that dementia
0:17.7	rates have actually declined in the United States and Western Europe
0:21.5	over the last decade. So what are we doing right and what are we doing wrong when it comes to
0:26.2	dealing with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia? And what should we be doing
0:30.8	in the future? Our guests on this episode, Daniel George and Peter Whitehouse, have a lot to say
0:36.4	about that. Dr. George is a medical
0:38.7	anthropologist and associate professor at Penn State. And Dr. Whitehouse is a professor of
0:44.0	neurology at Case Western Reserve University and a professor of medicine at the University of
0:48.9	Toronto. Together, they are the co-authors of the new book, American Dementia, Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society.
0:56.9	Thank you both so much for joining us.
0:59.5	Thank you for having us.
1:00.4	Thank you. Most welcome.
1:01.1	Tell us about the meaning behind the title of your book, American Dementia.
1:06.5	Our working title for the entire writing process was brain health in an unhealthy society,
1:12.1	which focuses on what you said in your introduction,
1:15.2	that as some societies have adopted public health maneuvers that have helped us keep ourselves healthy and our brains healthy,
1:23.8	the rates of dementia have gone down in some countries,
1:27.3	we added American dementia to signal that there's a cultural problem here that goes beyond
1:33.1	that observation that we're not thinking straight.
1:37.0	We're not remembering properly.
1:38.3	We're not planning for the future.
1:39.6	We're not doing very well with our own activities of daily living.
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