So in this post I want to share what I often find myself explaining to families: the basics of clinical dementia diagnosis, what kind of information I’ll need to obtain, and how long the process can take. However, it’s not very likely that I - or any clinician - will be able to definitely diagnose dementia based a single in-person visit.īut I get this kind of request fairly frequently. This is a reasonable concern to have, given the circumstances. Specifically, he wanted to know if his father has dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease. The son wanted to know if I could make a housecall. Since then the father had sold his long-time home rather quickly, and was hardly returning his son’s calls. He explained that his 86 year-old father, who lived in the Bay Area, had recently been widowed. “Doctor, do you diagnose dementia? Because I need someone who can diagnose dementia.”Ī man asked me this question recently.
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