Barry Baines

It never hurts to kind of go over things about specifically the difference between dementia, Alzheimer's dementia, and of course, Patty, you hit the nail right on the head, the idea that dementia is the broad umbrella, and then underneath it, there's a number of different kinds of dementia, of which Alzheimer's dementia is the most common.

So I just wanted to

jump in and make sure that we at least had a basic leveling of the playing field so that we, you know, we don't get confused between Alzheimer's disease, which is really Alzheimer's dementia.

And so to be fair about that.

And that that's just where I was going to your, to your point.

I dealt with a lot of, you know, as a family doctor, again,

I was one of those womb to tomb doctors, you know, delivering babies all the way to the end of life where a lot of my care in the last 20 years of my practice was in hospice and end of life care.

And over time, what wound up happening is I would say the majority of the hospice patients that we wound up having

reflected the commonality of alzheimer's dementia when it got very advanced that became one of the most common diagnoses and end-of-life care in hospice it was in stage and stage dementia of which alzheimer's was uh the most common so you know i said you know it's very difficult because there's very a lot of things with the families and how do you go about it and

You know, at the end of life component, you can't get upstream.

Yeah.

You know, and that's why I'm like really, you know, excited and interested to hear about some of the things that Patty's doing.

I don't know if I'm getting to your specific...

questions or queries of me, Stan.

So feel free to keep poking the bear.

All right.

Yeah, that's an example of short-term memory.

I didn't remember that I had my mute button on.

But it is mostly a short-term memory piece that we see more of.

And oftentimes some longer-term memory does remain intact there.