• Navigating the Challenges in Treating Older Adults with Epilepsy with Rebecca O’Dwyer, MD

  • Aug 29 2024
  • Durée: 27 min
  • Podcast

Navigating the Challenges in Treating Older Adults with Epilepsy with Rebecca O’Dwyer, MD

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  • The older adult population is the largest-growing cohort of epilepsy patients in the United States. One in four newly diagnosed patients is 65 and older, and that number is set to double by 2055. With the signs of epilepsy presenting in more subtle ways than in younger patients, older adults tend to be late- and mis-diagnosed.

    In addition, the geriatric population is often excluded from clinical trials because of age. Thus, this group is underrepresented and its clinical impressions from epilepsy are not well understood.

    Rebecca O’Dwyer, MD, is a neurologist and epileptologist in the Rush Epilepsy Center and is the Director of the Epilepsy Clinic for Older Adults at Rush. Her clinical expertise is in epilepsy and cognition, as well as epilepsy and seizures in the older adult population.

    “A lot of us in the epilepsy, neurology and lay community associate epilepsy with being a disease of the youth. But we see this bimodal distribution of cases in younger patients as well as older ones. For older adults, epilepsy can present as a symptom of an underlying disorder.”
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