Ask Dr. Mia: Navigating Dementia Caregiving
Ever wonder how to help your love one through memory changes? Want to find a geriatrician or memory specialist, but they are few and far in between? Dr. Mia is a board-certified geriatrician, former sandwich generation caregiver, memory specialist, on a mission to help you navigate the healthcare system and memory care. She interviews experts and real-life caregivers to help you navigate dementia care and memory changes with confidence and grace. www.miayangmd.com
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 55
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
How to Advocate within a Hospitalization with Dr. Monique Nugent
Summary
Dr. Mia interviews Dr. Monique Nugent about her book 'Prescription for Admission' and discusses various topics related to navigating the healthcare system and hospital stays. The…
Why I LOVE people living with dementia
In the final episode of season three, Dr. Mia reflects on her love for working with people living with dementia and their caregivers. She shares the inspiring story of a couple, Bill an…
Estate Planning Is for Everyone with Jeff Bloomfield JD
In this episode, Dr. Mia interviews Jeff Bloomfield, an estate planning lawyer from Carolina Estate Planning, to discuss the importance of estate planning and related legal documents. T…
Heart Brain Connection with Tim Hughes, PhD
Dr. Mia talks with her colleague Dr. Tim Hughes, about vascular and metabolic conditions' contribution to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
Timothy Hughes, PhD, is an Associate…
Global Brain Health documentary with Caroline Prioleau
Dr. Mia talks with Caroline Prioleau, writer for the Global Brain Health Institute at University of California San Francisco's Memory & Aging Center and co-lead of the Hear/Say oral his…
How to Advocate for Yourself & Your Love Ones with Dr. Ashley Sanderlin
Dr. Mia talks with Dr. Ashley Sanderlin about how to advocate for yourself or your love ones within the healthcare system.
Ashley H. Sanderlin, PhD is a passionate researcher that inves…
What to Do About Preventing Falls
Dr. Mia talks about the other main reason why people end up in nursing homes- "legs not working" aka falls, especially the factors that affect people's balance and what to do about each…
Neuropsychologists: Who & What They Do with Dr. Bonnie Sachs
In this episode of Ask Dr. Mia podcast, Dr. Mia talks to her colleague, neuropsychologist and memory researcher Dr. Bonnie Sachs.
Dr. Bonnie Sachs is a board-certified clinical neuropsy…
Biggest Dementia News You’ve Not Heard of
Returning back to Season 3 of Ask Dr. Mia Podcast talking about what is Comprehensive Dementia Care and Medicare's new program to pay for it.
Health Affairs' article on Comprehensive De…
Lecanemab Update: Predicting the future of Alzheimer's drugs
For the last episode of season 2, Dr. Mia talks about lecanemab, a monoclonal antibody against amyloid, results since the show's most popular episode on lecanemab released on 10/7/2022.…
Lewy Body Dementia with Dr. Trey Bateman
In this episode, Dr. Mia talks with Dr. Trey Bateman about Lewy Body dementia, unique challenges in diagnosis, different treatment options compared to Alzheimer's dementia, and his rese…
Frontotemporal dementia with Dr. Halima Amjad
With the recent news of Bruce Willis' diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, I talk with Dr. Halima Amjad about her own personal journey with her late father's FTD diagnosis as well as h…
How to Get Better Sleep with Dr. Jaime Hughes
Sleep, everyone wants it or better versions of it. Dr. Mia talks with Dr. Jaime Hughes about sleep for older adults.
Jaime Hughes is an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University Sch…
Honest Aging: what we gain with age with Dr. Rosanne Leipzig
Dr. Mia talks with Dr. Rosanne Leipzig, a trailblazer in transforming the way we approach aging individually and as a society. In her 40+ year career, she has treated thousands of pati…
Adult Children of Aging Parents (ACAP)
Dr. Mia talks with Frances Hall and Bob Cain about the unique needs of adult children who are caring for their aging parents and how their organization Adult Children of Aging Parents (…
Career in Geriatrics: Antidote to Burnout?
Dr. Mia talks with Dr. Mariah Robertson and Dr. June Howell about seeming contradictions: geriatrics was the lowest filled medicine specialty in the 2022 match yet geriatricians are amo…
Advocating for Age-Friendly Policies with Dr. Debbie Freeland
Dr. Mia talks with Dr. Debbie Freeland, geriatrician and Health & Aging Policy Fellow 2021-2022, about policies and advocacy for older adults.
We discussed big "P" Policy vs little "p" …
The Uber of Caregiving: Interview with Neal Shah, CEO of CareYaya
Dr. Mia talks with Neal Shah, CEO and Co-Founder of CareYaya, a new way to find eldercare at home: leveraging college students interested in healthcare careers and technology to create …
Gerotech: technology in aging with Dr. Peter Abadir
As part of Innovations in Aging mini-series, Dr. Mia talks with Dr. Peter Abadir, Associate Professor in Geriatric Medicine and Engineering at Johns Hopkins about technology in aging. D…
What to do with holiday memory changes?
Dr. Mia talks about common physical, cognitive, and emotional changes in older adults, that adult children and other family members who may have noticed over the recent holidays.
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