04/02/2025
Dear patients and families, ride yours or your loved one's health with persistence. Many Alzheimer's patients get misdiagnosed. This journey "Doreen Monks โ The Emotional Journey of Alzheimerโs and Dementia" is an amazing story of courage. On average, it takes 7 years for a patient to be given the right diagnosis by a neurologist related to dementia. There are many forms of dementia. Get the right scans early on - MRI, CT scan, Pet scan and EEG because the structure and functions are not easily seen with one scan. Is it alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia, vascular, wernicke-korsakoff, primary progressive aphasia, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, etc.
What if your life and career were upended with a diagnosis of Alzheimerโs only to learn eight years later that the diagnosis was wrong? In th