Dr. Norman Swan
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How close was the tally, if you like, between the Tao in the blood and the progression of some of these people to Alzheimer's and indeed were
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Yeah.
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Given that you found it in the blood of people who were yet to develop dementia and cognitive decline, is this a diagnostic marker?
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In other words, if you did this test and it was positive, can you say this person has Alzheimer's disease?
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And what you're referring to there is the work particularly of Karen Richie and expatriate Australian in the south of France who's showing that you can have indications of Alzheimer's disease when you're entirely normal, maybe twenty years, thirty years before dementia develops.
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What's the use of knowing this when we don't have treatments?
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And just finally, is this a test that's accurate and able to be scaled up to commercial pathology labs so that general practitioners one day might be able to order it and is it affordable?
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Indeed, for joining us.
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Thank you very much for having me.
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Alexis Moskoso is in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry at the University of Uteberg in Sweden.
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Residential aged care has been in a state of crisis for years now over serious quality and safety issues, and we're awaiting the federal government's detailed response to the Royal Commission's recommendations.
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But according to Professor Joanna Westbrook, who's director of the Center for Health Systems and Safety Research at McCormick.
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University, there could be a fairly simple fix for some of the commonest causes of preventable harm in residential aged care.
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It's about using the data that already exist in aged care facilities.
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Obviously a big source of complications and even death in in some circumstances.
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So w what you're saying is the data are there but they're not being used.
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So let's take medications because you're getting the wrong medications prescribed, antipsychotics, you're getting wrong doses, y there's all sorts of problems that arise.
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What have you found that you could actually solve and how would you do it?
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Joana Westbrook I'm missing something here.
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