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David B. Carr

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Associate Professor of Medicine and Neurology

Expertise: geriatrics, nutritional science, memory, aging

Bio:
Carr
Carr
Carr's interests are in caring for older adults in outpatient and long-term care settings. His current projects include research on the safety of older drivers, and evaluating the efficacy of units dedicated to oncology acute care and cardiology acute care for the elderly.

Carr is the clinical director for the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science and has an outpatient geriatric assessment clinic that serves the frail older adult in the community who may have difficulty with memory, dementia, incontinence, medication issues, falls, nutrition problems or depression. He also is a clinician in the School of Medicine's Memory Diagnostic Center and is the geriatric fellowship director and coordinator for the internal medicine residency geriatric rotation. He recently also began serving as medical director of Park Provence, a state-of-the-art dementia care facility, located in West St. Louis County.



News Stories & Tip Sheets:

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Time to stop

Physicians play role in driving cessation for older adults with dementia (http://www.aafp.org/afp/20060315/1029.html)

March 17, 2006 --
Family physicians are integral providers of vital information and assessments to families faced with the difficult task of determining whether or not a loved one with dementia is still fit to drive. WUSM researchers provide an in-depth look at the matter in the following article from American Family Physician.


Back to their roots

Gardening provides therapy for Alzheimer's patients (http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6321.html)

Dec. 16, 2005 --
Nearly all of the senses, but especially touch, smell and sight, get used in some of the newer cognitive therapies for Alzheimer’s.
Jerry Naunheim Jr., Post-Dispatch
Nearly all of the senses get used in some of the newer cognitive therapies for Alzheimers.
Alzheimer's patients at a Creve Coeur residential community enjoy a nontraditional type of therapy — gardening. "I have to say that gardening's fairly new, at least in long-term care," says David Carr, associate professor of medicine. "And I have no scientific proof, but based on my personal experience and the literature, these types of activities can help maintain cognitive ability over time."



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McCain works to answer age and health questions
Boston Globe and 5 others

March 27, 2008 -- David Carr, clinical director of WUSTL's division of geriatrics and nutritional science, said the fact that McCain has gone five years without a melanoma recurrence is good news.



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•Carr's Web page (http://geriatrics.im.wustl.edu/carr.html)

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