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Comprehensive, relevant and insightful conversations about health and medicine happen here… on MedStar Health Doc Talk. Meet Dr. George Hennawi, physician executive director of Geriatrics and Senior Services for MedStar Health. Caring for an elderly adult can be rewarding but can come with many challenges. Caregiver burnout is common. So, who is taking care of the caregiver? Learn more about how getting questions answered, explaining health conditions, and find resources can make a difference in the life of a caregiver.

Go to MedStarHealth.org/SuccessfulAging  for more information about senior care.

For interviews with Dr. George Hennawi, contact Debra Schindler, regional director of media & public relations: debra.schindler@medstar.net.

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This episode discusses how you can change your approach to the holiday season so that both you and your LO will have a more enjoyable time.

Thanksgiving is a holiday of hope and giving thanks. What if you can't find something to be grateful for?  Listening to this episode will hopefully help you find peace, hope and maybe even something to be thankful for.

So many seniors have undiagnosed and untreated depression.  Perhaps your LO with dementia also has depression.  Depression can impact memory and make their dementia appear much move advanced then it may truly be.

This episode addresses how to approach the topic with your LO and what can be done.

"Senior Living: Taking back your Golden Years" (on Amazon) is a book written by Laura Banner and her daughter Kelly Rasmovich.  This book can help your LO find joy and purpose at a time in their life that they thought it wasn't possible. 

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Sometimes memory loss may appear to be dementia but in fact it's a dementia mimic.  Dementia is progressive, nonreversible memory loss but a dementia mimic can be treated and then from that point forward memory will improve.  This episode talks about when a mimic looks just like dementia.  Be sure to check out next week's episode (#37) to learn more about dementia mimics.

Too often your doctor's appointment comes and goes before you know it and you leave thinking of all the questions you forgot to ask.  This happens to everyone but what do you do when you get home and find yourself needing information? Caregivers do you feel like the time you spend with your LOs healthcare provider leaves you feeling like a knowledgeable caregiver or do you feel like you're left in the dark?  This episode is spent on exactly this issue.  Listen to ATW episode #30 and hear my personal experience with this issue.

The change of seasons can bring on unexpected confusion to your loved one with dementia.  This episode with give you some things to consider as you prepare for the Fall/Autumn season.