In Forbes, PRC Researcher Jason Karlawish, MD, challenges the social stigmatizing of Alzheimer’s in an article titled “Alzheimer’s Disease Patients Aren’t Zombies; They’re People And We Need To Treat Them Like People.” Karlawish said, ” The inspiration came from a class I taught this semester on the public health challenges of Alzheimer’s disease. The students and I discussed the stories of Alice Munro and how they pull the reader in and out of different realities. The lives of the patient and the caregiver aren’t a juxtaposition of the unreal versus the real. They both live in the surreal. The challenge of living with Alzheimer’s disease, whether as patient or caregiver, is to negotiate this “surreality.”
The University of Pennsylvania Prevention Research Center (UPenn PRC) is a community-engaged research center that was founded in 2014. The UPenn PRC’s mission is to improve the health of people in Philadelphia, Southeastern Pennsylvania, and beyond by preventing, reducing, and treating chronic diseases. The center’s primary focus is on implementation of evidence-based strategies to improve patient and provider communication to optimize clinical and community-based management of cancer in diverse older adults.
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