How have you refined your approach to disclosing a new diagnosis of dementia to a patient and their family?
Is there a specific conversation structure or lesson from experience that shaped how you do it now?
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Geriatric Medicine · Wake Forest University School of Medicine
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I tend to think about this disclosure as layers of an onion. My general layers are:
- Explain what dementia is (and is not) and how we got to that diagnosis. Something like "You and your family have noticed memory problems, and the testing we just did confirms that. The memory problem appears signifi...
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