The Co-Director of the Penn Memory Center Dr. Jason Karlawish
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome back Dr. Jason Karlawish.
About Dr. Jason Karlawish:
Dr. Jason Karlawish is a physician, writer, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He researches bioethics, aging, and neuroscience and co-directs the Penn Memory Center, where he cares for patients.
He is the author of The Problem of Alzheimer’s and Open Wound and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and more. He serves on the boards of The Greenwall Foundation and Play On! Philly. He lives in Philadelphia.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:26.5 | Hello and welcome back to all home care matters. If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:30.4 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.2 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode |
| 0:36.6 | here at all home care matters, something that will hopefully matter to you. |
| 0:40.8 | Today, I am honored to welcome back, Dr. Jason Carlowish. He's the author of The Problem of Alzheimer's. |
| 0:49.1 | Welcome, Dr. Carlowish. How are you? |
| 0:51.9 | Very good. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be back. Wonderful. |
| 0:55.3 | Is it okay to call you Jason or should I call you Dr. Jason? Jason's fine, please. Or we can say |
| 1:00.7 | DJ, Dr. Jason. And how should I refer to you? Lance is fine. |
| 1:05.8 | Okay. All right. Well, welcome back. You know, the first time you came on, Jason, you know, was because I came across your book, The Problem of Alzheimer's, which I cannot tell you how many times I've recommended that book for people to truly have a deeper understanding of where and why Alzheimer's is at today in society. It's a tremendous, tremendous book. |
| 1:29.2 | I was fortunate enough that shortly after your first appearance here, |
| 1:33.6 | you were doing a book signing at one of the university bookstores |
| 1:38.6 | there in Ann Arbor, so I got to meet you in person, |
| 1:40.7 | got a great signing from your book. |
| 1:43.4 | But today we're going to talk about some |
| 1:44.9 | different topics. First, I wanted to really dive into a better understanding of dementia risk |
| 1:50.5 | and the new findings. You know, the implications of the nature and medicine study shows that |
| 1:57.1 | the risk of dementia by the age of 95 is 42%. And I think people just take that for |
| 2:02.8 | granted. You know, the whole thing is, you know, dementia is part of old age and natural aging, |
| 2:07.5 | which we all know it's not. And what's so staggering about that statistic is it's double the previous |
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