Diagnosis, Resources, & Care
Dementia is a horizontal illness - it affects everyone connected to the person. What we offer at MD Memory Care is extra time available for attentive listening to individual patient needs, development of unique care plans to improve everyone's quality of life, and decreased waiting time for appointments.
Diagnosis, Support & Care
Dementia is a horizontal illness that affects everyone connected to the person. Hearing the word Alzheimer's can plunge one towards unknown hardship and loss. What I offer at MD Memory Care is both a rich experience in this field with extra time for attentive listening to individual patient needs to develop a unique care plan. With an uncertain future we must look even more closely to find opportunities to improve everyone's quality of life. No one chooses a neurodegenerative illness - but we can chose how we react to this diagnosis. Rather than retreating into fear, we can work together to find pieces of comfort and joy along this unexpected journey.
This useful book by Neurologist dementia expert Catherine Madison, MD, founder of the Dolby Brain Health Center in San Francisco, offers both clarity and compassion as it guides readers through the complex terrain of memory loss and dementia. The author’s expertise coupled with her warm tone and straightforward writing style make the difficult realities of caring for someone with memory loss easier to face and navigate. It's helpful that it is organized around some of the most common and important questions people ask about dementia, so it's easy to use. With practical advice grounded in her long medical experience with dementia patients and families, it’s a thoughtful roadmap for anyone confronting cognitive change.
Martin Rossman MD
Diagnosis, Resources, & Care
Dementia is a horizontal illness - it affects everyone connected to the person. What we offer at MD Memory Care is extra time available for attentive listening to individual patient needs, development of unique care plans to improve everyone's quality of life, and decreased waiting time for appointments.
Ray Dolby Brain Health Center
My vision of a holistic approach to diagnosis and care began based on my years as a physician and personal experiences with dementia in the family. The Ray Dolby Brain Health Center was then created with the generous support and partnership of Dagmar Dolby. Working with colleagues I cared for thousands of patients and their families with the goal of improving next chapters for each unique story. A fresh perspective can give us the energy to find a path forward.
The Center has grown over these years and expanded to accomodate the increasing need for care as our population ages. They are also able to give the most recently approved medications to remove amyloid from the brain and potentially stall decline.
Testimonials
”Not only is Catherine Madison a forward thinking neurologist, but is also a most humanistic physician which is of great importance for the population affected by this disease”
— Dagmar D.