The Current State of Evaluation & Management of Alzheimer's Disease with Dr. Barak Gaster M.D.
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Dr. Barak Gaster M.D. as guest to the show to discuss the current state of evaluation and management of Alzheimer's disease.
About Dr. Barak Gaster M.D.:
Barak Gaster, MD is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington where he serves as the director of the Cognition in Primary Care Program which designs training and tools to improve dementia care in the primary care setting. He served on the leadership committee which guided the most recent CDC Healthy Brain Roadmap, he is a co-investigator at the University of Washington Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and is a governor-appointed member of the leadership council for the Washington Dementia Action Collaborative.
He has more than 20 years experience as a primary care provider, and he is a nationally recognized expert on dementia in the primary care setting.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things Home Care, with discussions |
| 0:06.8 | 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. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome back to all home care matters. If this is your first |
| 0:27.2 | time visiting us here at the show we want to say thank you for taking time |
| 0:30.6 | out to be with us today. We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is and |
| 0:34.9 | that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters. Something that will hopefully |
| 0:39.2 | matter to you. Today we are honored to welcome Dr. Barak Gaster. |
| 0:43.7 | He is a professor of medicine at the University of Washington |
| 0:47.1 | and also the director and founder of dementia directive |
| 0:50.6 | and cognition and primary care. Welcome Dr. Barak. and introduce you as a physician. What is your specialty and background? |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah, so I am a professor of medicine |
| 1:07.0 | at the University of Washington, |
| 1:08.8 | where I practice general internal medicine. |
| 1:11.2 | So I'm a general internal medicine primary care doctor |
| 1:14.7 | who really focuses a lot in my non-clinical work |
| 1:20.0 | in the detection and management of dementia, |
| 1:25.1 | specifically in the primary tier space. |
| 1:28.2 | Now, a lot of people that we speak to, |
| 1:31.3 | they have some story or there was a circumstance or an |
| 1:36.2 | experience that really led them to the pursuit of medicine or in health care in some |
| 1:41.5 | fashion for helping others. Do you have a story? |
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