While memory loss is generally thought of as the hallmark of dementia, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia like agitation, aggression, anxiety, and hallucinations are nearly universal, affecting almost all patients with advanced dementia. These behavioral disturbances are often the trigger for nursing home placement, and they can be highly distressing for both patients and their care partners. In today’s episode, Matt and Lauren speak with Dr. Ellen McCreedy, a researcher from the Brown School of Public Health who has conducted a study of personalized music intervention called Music & Memory for people living with dementia in nursing homes. Dr. McCreedy is a gerontologist and health services researcher who focuses on evaluation of non-pharmacologic interventions for managing behavioral disturbances of people living with dementia.

What to know about the uptick in B19 and other respiratory illnesses expected to have a comeback in colder seasons.

Therapies for pain conditions like fibromyalgia provide clues for helping those with long COVID.

Michigan Medicine researchers have zeroed in on C. auris’ uncanny ability to stick to everything from skin to catheters and made a startling discovery.

Researchers look into a drug called proxalutamide as a potential therapeutic for the coronavirus.

Study finds exhaled breath could enhance detection, diagnosis of COVID-19 and variants

Causes of death were reclassified by the CDC to include contributing factors such as dementia. These changes resulted in dementia jumping up from the 8th cause of death in 2000 to the 6th cause of death in 2018 (and the 5th cause of death among older adults). In this episode we’ll talk with Dr. Bryan James from Rush University about dementia as a cause of death (versus contributing factor).

A conversation with Dr. Daniel Kaul, Director of the Transplant Infectious Disease Service at University of Michigan Health

U-M Health President David Miller on the challenges of the pandemic

A race to deliver COVID vaccines at Michigan Medicine

A physician commits to fighting vaccine hesitancy.

People paid a price for prematurely celebrating the end of the 1918 flu pandemic.

And how to regain and bolster social skills that might have atrophied during lockdown

From patient-centered to community-centered decision making

An extraordinary birth story at the height of the COVID-19 surge