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Good News? US Senators Seek to Cut Misuse of Antipsychotics

This is a controversial matter……. I don’t even know what to say about it……….. my mother is on antipsychotics that were given to her by a trained psychiatrist to “stabilize” her during her month-long stay at a geriatric psych unit. … Continue reading

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Mother’s Day & Dementia… My Own Op-Ed (please share, please spread the word)

Mother’s Day is an awkward holiday. I say awkward because while I understand why we make such a fuss about this day, I can’t help but find it to be somewhat, well, insensitive — to put it bluntly, Mother’s Day … Continue reading

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The New York Times and Frontotemporal Dementia … A Must Read

An article, which appeared in The New York Times, about a wife and her husband who has Frontotemporal dementia really hit home with me……. I wish this article came out five or six years ago…… For me, reading this, well, … Continue reading

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