Personalized dementia care at Penn Medicine
While there is no cure for dementia and other cognitive disorders, your care team at Penn can offer you personalized treatment and management options to help you maintain your quality of life. Our treatment options include:
Our caregivers are here to support our patients through the challenges of aging with dementia and memory loss. We partner with our patients and their loved ones to develop customized care and management plans that address issues with medication adherence, safety concerns, co-occurring health issues, behavioral wellness, and more.
Our researchers are always studying memory disorders so we can better understand and treat them. As an academic medical center, our patients get first access to new and emerging therapies for memory disorders that may help prolong independence and improve quality of life.
Our cognitive disorder treatment specialists use the latest and most promising FDA-approved medications, including the recent breakthrough drug Leqembi® (lecanemab). These medications have been found to slow cognitive decline in people living with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease and can help to improve quality of life. Our research team continues to explore other medications in development to further advance treatment options for those with memory disorders.
We strive to help patients maintain their mobility, independence, and quality of life through our advanced physical and occupational therapy resources. These programs help to increase and strengthen physical and cognitive function to offset the severity of disease progression.
Our therapists will also work to treat the behavioral side effects of dementia and memory loss, including disruptions of sleep, mood changes, and loss of impulse control.
We know that memory loss affects the entire family, and we strive to give caregivers the education, support, and guidance they need to care for themselves, and their aging loved ones. Penn Memory and Center and Penn Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) Center’s support groups help caregivers connect with one another to exchange advice and support.
Our leading network of neurosurgeons is highly experienced in performing procedures to relieve hydrocephalic pressure that can lead to dementia. Non-pressure hydrocephalus is one of the few causes of dementia that can be treated and reversed, but only through surgical intervention.