Alzheimer`s Disease/UTI/Elderly

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Can you refer me to any specific articles/Literatuer that supports the high rate of undetected UTI in geriatric pts?  Many Thanks!

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Hi Karyn,  right now I am barely able to type!  I fell last Friday so am home on the couch with right hand and ankle in splints  the info you want is at work so if you can wait awhile (?) i can send this to you when i am back at work.  if that works for you then please send me an email at my office so i can send it to you direct cause i think i lose your email once i send this response.  pld5c@virginia.edu  Tx  Paula

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Paula Damgaard

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I can offer families and caregivers non-diagnostic answers to questions regarding the disease. I travel around the state giving courses on Alzheimer`s disease for nurses and CNA`s.

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I have coordinated Alzheimer's Clinical drug trials since 1987. I have coordinated the Memory Disorders Clinic since it's inception 1994. I also have personnal experience from caring for my mother who died of AD 5/2000 and presently from caring for my mother in law who was diagnosed in March 2000.

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