At-risk patients should have hearing tests.
Dr David Lim speaks with Dr Hilton Koppe on applying good chronic disease management strategies to cognitive impairment and dementia.
Description
- Apply good chronic disease management strategies to cognitive impairment and dementia
- Management of patients who have delirium and how important it is to the development of dementia later
- Those that are at risk should have hearing tests
- Focus on cardiovascular risk factors, particularly smoking
- Social issues of isolation, depression, poverty, poor education are important
Host: Dr David Lim, GP and medical educator
Guest: Dr Hilton Koppe, General Practitioner
Total time: 34 mins
