Moving Mom with Cognitive Decline May Take Creative Thinking
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Dear Carol: My 84-year-old mother has been living in her own condominium but her problems with dementia are making this a scary situation. She forgets that she’s cooking and leaves the stove on and has left the water running for hours. She forgets what day it is and how to do basic self-care. Mom has physical problems, too, including damaged lungs and mobility and pain problems from post-polio syndrome. I talked her into in-home care twice in the past but when the caregivers came, she refused to let them in. I understand because I doubt that I’d like strangers coming in either, but somethi...
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 26, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Post Polio Iliopsoas Atrophy-MRI
33 year old polio patient MRI spine was done and showed mild scoliotic tilt with convexity to left. Left iliopsoas muscle is not well seen with areas of fatty replacement within the iliacus and psoas major muscle. Left gluteal muscles are also atrophied. These findings likely indicate atrophic changes in the muscles along with fatty replacement & scoliotic tilt.
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Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - July 26, 2013 Category: Radiologists Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
