What Is Dementia With Lewy Bodies? - Darby Morhardt, M.S.W. (VIDEO)
Social Worker Darby Morhardt describes dementia with Lewy bodies.
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Darby Morhardt:
They often have very colorful images that they are seeing that are not, they are not really bothered by, that are very surprising to families, but they are not, and they also have a lot of difficulty with, they usually have a sleep disorder, or they have the inability when they are waking up from a dream to distinguish the reality from the dream and so, that is also another symptom of the disease.
It can also fluctuate more than Alzheimer’s disease in that, people can have days where they are functioning normally and then, all of a sudden, have these bizarre types of hallucinations or problems with the gate, with the gate imbalance as well. And then, which is also very frustrating for families because they think that the person probably is faking it because they functioned so well yesterday. Why aren’t they today? So it can be a very, very confusing, difficult illness.
About Darby Morhardt, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.:
Darby Morhardt is a research associate professor, the Director of Education, and a clinical research social worker at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Her research interests include early stage and Younger Onset dementia programs and services, the dynamics and functioning of caregiving families, the subjective experience of Alzheimer's disease, and primary care physician education.
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