Dodd Rehabilitation Hospital
Columbus, OH 43210
If you receive the life-changing diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, we want you to know that you’ll have an entire team of Alzheimer’s disease doctors and other specialists dedicated to creating a personalized treatment plan that gives you the best possible quality of life.
Your team will include cognitive neurologists, neuropsychiatrists, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, psychometricians and research coordinators.
Though there is currently no cure for the disease, most individuals with Alzheimer’s disease benefit from medications that slow the symptoms (declining memory and mental functioning) from worsening for a period of time.
For these medications to be most effective, they should be started as soon as possible in the course of the disease, which is why early diagnosis is so important.
Our pharmacist in the Memory Disorders Clinic can further discuss these medications with you, and our social worker can work with pharmaceutical companies if you’re unable to afford medicines.
Also, our Alzheimer’s doctors successfully treat many of the disease’s behavioral symptoms, including depression, anxiety, restless behaviors, psychosis, paranoia, hallucinations, mood changes, sleep disorders and appetite disturbances. This can improve quality of life for both you and your caregivers.
Some symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, such as restlessness, agitation, depression and mood changes, can be treated by using environmental and behavioral techniques, in addition to medications.
Some of these approaches include:
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