(This post is a part of a series; the first one can be found here.)

Here again are the four important take-aways from Dr. Paul Raia's Q&A session with healthcare professionals dealing with dementia that I want to talk about here:

1. Four things that slow down Alzheimer's progress in the early stages (discussed here)
2. The dementia diagnostic process: is it important that patients go through it? What does it involve? (discussed in this post)
3. Depression and dementia (discussed in this post)
4. Two books he recommends most for families to read (discussed here)

I was very interested in question #2 , in fact, I would have asked it myself! His answer will allow us to also cover the third take-away about depression and dementia here, because the two are deeply interwoven.

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