Getting Back to Life
Getting Back to Life: Patients and Caregivers’ Experience with Anti-Amyloid Therapy
Nearly a year and a half ago, we released the Season 2 episode “In Sickness and in Health,” which explored new anti-amyloid therapies for Alzheimer’s disease, lecanemab and donanemab, known commercially as Leqembi and Kisunla.
After more than three years of lecanemab and nearly two years of donanemab in clinical use, how do patients, caregivers, and clinicians view these treatments today?
In this episode of The Age of Aging, we revisit the therapies reshaping Alzheimer’s care and hear from those experiencing them firsthand.
Inside this episode
Patients receiving anti amyloid therapy share reflections on treatment, uncertainty, and hope.
Dr. Justin Clapp discusses research on how patients, caregivers, and clinicians understand these therapies.
Dr. Kyra O’Brien reflects on prescribing the treatments and changes within clinical practice.
Dr. Jason Karlawish shares perspectives from patient conversations and clinical care.
Resources available on the episode webpage linked below
Listen to “In Sickness and in Health”
Learn more about Justin Clapp
Learn more about Kyra O’Brien
More information on anti-amyloid therapies
Special thanks this episode to Dave and Evelyn, Justin Clapp, PhD, MPH, Kyra O’Brien, MD, Joanne and Bruce Thomas, Sandy Shulan, and Jason Karlawish, MD.
The Age of Aging is a Penn Memory Center production hosted by Editorial Director Terrence Casey and Producer Jake Johnson, in partnership with the Penn FTD Center, the Penn Institute on Aging, and Penn’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Contributors include Dalia Elsaid, Jason Karlawish, Emily Largent, and Alison Lynn.
The Age of Aging is made possible by generous support from the Michael Naidoff Communications Hub fund.
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