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Dementia risk reduction

Expert/s: Dr Hilton Koppe

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Apply good chronic disease management strategies to cognitive impairment and dementia
Management of patients who have delirium and how important it is to the development of dementia later
Those that are at risk should have hearing tests
Focus on cardiovascular risk factors, particularly smoking
Social issues of isolation, depression, poverty, poor education are important

Expert: Dr Hilton Koppe, General Practitioner

Host: Dr David Lim, GP and Medical Educator

Total time: 33 minutes

Last Updated: 23 Apr, 2024

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Last Updated: 23 Apr, 2024

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