Caring for Those With Dementia – Drs. Brent Forester and James Lech

June 17, 2024

Dementia is known a family disease because of the ways it affects not only the person, but also friends and family who are caregivers.

 

Brent Forester, MD, Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chairman of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center, Director of Behavioral Health at Tufts Medicine, and the Francis S. Arkin Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and James Lech, MD, Chair of Psychiatry and Medical Director of Psychiatry at MelroseWakefield Hospital, joined the Healthy Podcast to discuss dementia...causes, signs and symptoms and information for friends, families and caregivers.

 

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