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Podcast: Pre-Hospital Care Podcast
Episode: Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease with Jennifer Bute
Description: In this interview we will examine some of the prevailing issues and incremental rise of Alzheimer’s disease within the global healthcare system. Cognitive decline is a major concern of the aging population. Already, Alzheimer’s disease affects approximately one in 14 people over the age of 65, rapidly becoming the third leading cause of death in the UK behind cardiovascular disease and cancer.
To do this I have with me Jennifer Bute. Jennifer was a GP in a large clinical practice, whose patients included those with dementia. Then she began to notice symptoms in herself and was finally give...