Jul 2, 2026 · 40 min · 14 segments
As part of the 2026 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Dr. Peter Bulova, Professor of General Internal Medicine, The University of Pittsburgh, discusses dementia in people with Down Syndrome…
Peter BulovaGuestConference ModeratorHost
I'm so glad to hear that you're now including aging because a couple of my slides will be kind of about how this is a very important topic that is going to get more and more relevant throughout all of our careers.
And now he needs assistance getting ready in the morning, which had never been an issue before.
So the questions I would like to address, we'll talk about through today, how specifically would we address a case like David's? Does he have dementia? Does he not? And how do we tell? And then some of the broader issues, like is dementia inevitable? If you are a pediatrician out there, I want to make sure this is relevant to you too.
So I'd like to talk about how do we prevent dementia? manage dementia? And just how do we understand dementia in adults with Down syndrome? And I'll talk a little bit about, you know, are there things that we can do for prevention? What are the early signs that we should be looking for? And how do we counsel all of our patients? And I think that dementia and Down syndrome is a really nice model for dementia in general for people with intellectual disabilities.
The good news is that adults with Down syndrome are living longer, healthier lives than ever before because of improved medical care, technology, environmental conditions.
The challenge associated with that is that we're caring for a population where there is not nearly as much experience and much less research data.
I'm so glad to hear that you're now including aging because a couple of my slides will be kind of about how this is a very important topic that is going to get more and more relevant throughout all of our careers.
And now he needs assistance getting ready in the morning, which had never been an issue before.
So the questions I would like to address, we'll talk about through today, how specifically would we address a case like David's? Does he have dementia? Does he not? And how do we tell? And then some of the broader issues, like is dementia inevitable? If you are a pediatrician out there, I want to make sure this is relevant to you too.
So I'd like to talk about how do we prevent dementia? manage dementia? And just how do we understand dementia in adults with Down syndrome? And I'll talk a little bit about, you know, are there things that we can do for prevention? What are the early signs that we should be looking for? And how do we counsel all of our patients? And I think that dementia and Down syndrome is a really nice model for dementia in general for people with intellectual disabilities.
The good news is that adults with Down syndrome are living longer, healthier lives than ever before because of improved medical care, technology, environmental conditions.
The challenge associated with that is that we're caring for a population where there is not nearly as much experience and much less research data.
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