CHARLOTTSVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – UVA Health neuropsychologists and a dementia care coordinator will be at the Center at Belvedere Thursday evening hosting a screening of the documentary “Keys, Bags, Names, Words: Hope in Aging and Dementia”. It’s a documentary of hope that features leaders in science and medicine, policy, and the arts employing knowledge, creativity and compassion to tackle one of the greatest global health challenges of our time.
UVA School of Medicine Dementia Care Coordinator Samantha Fields and neuropsychologists Carol Manning and Virginia Gallagher from the Memory Disorders Clinic will be panelists from 6-to-8 p.m. during the screening.
Dr. Gallagher says among 65-year-olds in the United States, about 1-in-50 people have dementia. But by the time you get to 90, the number becomes 1-in-3…