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Mayo Clinic at Meeting of the Minds

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The Meeting of the Minds Dementia Conference is for people with mild cognitive impairment or early dementia, families, friends and professionals. The conference is a collaboration between the Alzheimer’s Association Minnesota-North Dakota Chapter and Mayo Clinic, who work together to create a day designed to inform, equip and support people with dementia, family caregivers and professionals. There will be more than 1,300 participants and more than 70 sponsors and exhibits at the event Saturday March 2.

Follow the meeting from 8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. on Twitter using the hashtag #minds.

(Above: Watch Angela Lunde, a Mayo Clinic health education outreach coordinator, provide an overview of the Meeting of the Minds conference.)

Nearly 30 doctors, caretakers and speakers will be available to discuss varying aspects of dementia throughout the day. Full list of presenters. A few highlights include:

An estimated 5 and a half million Americans are struggling with Alzheimer’s Disease, so Ronald Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., the Chester and Debbie Cadieux Director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, will be on hand for a question and answer session about Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions. Dr. Petersen is the Cora Kanow Professor of Alzheimer’s Disease Research at Mayo. In the video below he gives an overview of the diesease:

Bradley Boeve, M.D., chair of behavioral neurology at Mayo Clinic will talk about a type of dementia that impacts young people: Frontotemporal Dementia, or FTD. The disease can strike people when they are very young, in their 20′s or even their teens. And while rare, it devastates lives by rapidly turning young, vital people into those who need constant care. Dr. Boeve talks about it in this segment:

Glenn Smith, Ph.D., a neuropsychologist at Mayo Clinic and Bruce Sutor, M.D., the practice chair for psychiatry adn psychology at Mayo Clinic will talk about TeleConsultation for dementia behavior management — including processes and approaches utilized here at Mayo. Below watch Dr. Smith describe another program he’s been essential in deploying at Mayo, the Habit program.


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