Why is ADHD Being Overlooked and Misdiagnosed as Dementia in Older Adults?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
An old friend and Harvard professor of psychiatry once told me that before he would write prescriptions for ADHD adults he required them to begin a regular exercise regimen. He noted that frequently, after really engaging in serious exercise for a few weeks, his patients would come back to him and say they no longer needed medication or only needed a very small dose compared to what they were expecting to need or had been using. Also is America waking up to the goodness of being "woke?" Good News Alert! Biden to create new office of gun violence prevention. What happens when home insurance is unavailable or too costly due to climate change?
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| 0:46.2 | Hey, welcome to our program. I believe I mentioned last week or maybe it was |
| 0:50.4 | beginning of this week that Louise and I rolled out a new newsletter basically online. |
| 0:56.0 | We'll be publishing there a couple times a week. It's called Hunter in a Farmer's World, |
| 1:01.7 | and it's about attention deficit hyperactive disorder, also known as ADHD, |
| 1:06.7 | something that I could easily be diagnosed with, at least one of my kids has been diagnosed with, |
| 1:12.4 | and maybe you could be diagnosed with. And this particular article, we just published it |
| 1:19.6 | yesterday, I believe, and it's titled Why is ADHD being overlooked and misdiagnosed in older adults? |
| 1:25.3 | This is based on an article that was published in the expert review of neurotheraputics, |
| 1:29.7 | which is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the psychiatry space. |
| 1:34.6 | And as titled the diagnosis and treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, |
| 1:38.3 | ADHD and older adults. And as an older adult, when I saw that, it perked up my interest and I read it, |
| 1:46.4 | and it came out of the University of Sweden, or Rebro in Sweden. |
| 1:51.6 | And this research team reviewed over a hundred different studies looking at the |
| 1:56.6 | prevalence diagnosis, health outcomes, and efficacy, and safety of treatment protocols for |
| 2:00.7 | older adults with ADHD. Here's the problem. When you get to be over 60, you're going to find that |
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