Mental Health Webinar: The Golden Years: Normal Aging vs. Warning Signs

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hi everybody Welcome to the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association or joma's mental health committee webinar on the golden years normal aging versus warning signs I'm Dr Tall Weinberger I'm an adult psychiatrist I'm I currently am um director of Psychiatry at hemed and also serve on the Joma board the mission of the Joma mental health committee is to provide Community Education about to provide Community Education about mental health how to optimize mental wellness and also um provide basic information about how to recognize prevent and treat some common mental health conditions so tonight we're very privileged to have two amazing panelists with us Dr Hindi murmelstein and Dr Rina godison um We Are Tonight We are planning to cover issues around normal aging um and differentiate those from um and differentiate those from cognitive issues of concern um we're going to talk about ways to reduce risk of cognitive decline and we're also going to talk about mood and behavioral issues that can come up in this the elderly population and how to identify issues that should raise concern and prompt medical evaluation of these mood and behavioral issues um so just a few housekeeping items before I introduce our panelists more thoroughly um we're gonna be asking questions to um we're gonna be asking questions to the panelists um there will be time for a question and answer at the end please post all questions in the Q a box the chat box is disabled the questions may be answered um in writing during during the webinar or we may answer the questions live at the end of the webinar please keep in mind to keep all questions Broad in general um and not about any individual person in their circumstances

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1. 0:00hi everybody Welcome to the Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association or joma's mental health committee webinar…
2. 5:39see changes you know very I think most people as they get older know and recognize…
3. 11:48Health and well-being affects your brain and the best protection and the best a way of…
4. 17:29long answer to a short question sorry no that's a great that's a great answer and…
5. 23:45um but there's a steady rate of decline of of memory short-term first long-term last and…
6. 29:27at home they now have to reorganize how they're going to do things very often married…
7. 35:38when there's some resistance to accepting the fact of cognitive decline um well first of all…
8. 41:14even if they don't recognize what that is even even if it's not denial it still…
9. 47:21markers of Alzheimer's disease um other options um that could potentially be used to look for…
10. 53:00affect cognitive ability cognitive uh cognitive function are also genetic genetic risks so my favorite is…

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