After his grandmother died of complications related to dementia, Dr. Jake Goodman vowed to learn everything he could about the debilitating condition.
“Dementia sucks,” Goodman, a psychiatry resident physician in Miami, declared in a TikTok last month. “Now that I’m in my final year of psychiatry training, I have treated countless people with dementia — from Alzheimer’s to vascular to more rare types like Lewy body dementia — and I spent countless hours studying and learning things that we can do now to prevent our risk of developing dementia as we age.”
Nearly 7 million Americans have been diagnosed with dementia — Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of the syndrome.
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