Joseph Red Hair Summary

This portion of the book seems to focus more on how to help treat and interact with the elderly, especially those experiencing Alzheimer’s and dementia. I liked the fact that he point out the challenge of trying to help a patient who is older and more experienced in life. In the chapter titled Joseph Red Hair” the author mentions that he was challenged by the proper way to interact with his patient Joseph who was has much more experience in life. This is a challenge that we as pharmacists are going to experience because most of our patient interaction is going to be with patients older than us.
One critical point that the author mentioned was that dementia/Alzheimer’s is not synonymous to aging. I experienced this last week when I met with