From the April 2017 issue of Massachusetts General Hospital's Mind, Mood, & Memory (MMM)
Ask the Doctor: Mixed Dementia; Sleep Apnea; Masked Hypertension
Find out how mixed dementia can be treated.
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Q: My father has mixed dementia. What is mixed dementia? Can it be treated? A: The term mixed dementia is often used to describe a combination of vascular dementia (caused by reduced blood flow to the brain) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It had been thought that about one in five Americans with dementia had this […]