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Caregiving Boot Camp: Podcast with Zaldy Tan
"Diagnose and adios." That's the sad phrase that I've heard quoted more than once, representing caregivers' sentiment of what it's like to be told by a clinician that your loved one has dementia.
This week we talked with Zaldy Tan, Geriatrician and Director of the Memory and Aging program at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles. With David Reuben at UCLA and others working LA realized that current caregiver training programs were lacking. Caregivers for people with dementia are stressed, short on time, and thirsty for high impact information and skills training that can be delivered efficiently. To…
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