Ask Dr. Mia: Conversations on Aging Well

Ever wonder how to help you or your aging loved one through physical or cognitive changes?

Want to find a geriatrician, a clinician specializing in the care of older adults, but they are few and far in between?

Dr. Mia Yang is a board-certified internist and geriatrician who is here to answer your questions on how to age well.

Submit questions to Dr. Mia via www.miayangmd.com Contact Page.

Recent Episodes

Lewy Body Dementia with Dr. Trey Bateman
May 23, 2023

Lewy Body Dementia with Dr. Trey Bateman

In this episode, Dr. Mia talks with Dr. Trey Bateman about Lewy Body dementia, unique challenges in diagnosis, different treatment options compared to Alzheimer's dementia, and his research on Mild Behavioral Impairment . Dr....

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Frontotemporal dementia with Dr. Halima Amjad
May 9, 2023

Frontotemporal dementia with Dr. Halima Amjad

With the recent news of Bruce Willis' diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, I talk with Dr. Halima Amjad about her own personal journey with her late father's FTD diagnosis as well as her professional role in dementia care an...

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How to Get Better Sleep with Dr. Jaime Hughes
April 25, 2023

How to Get Better Sleep with Dr. Jaime Hughes

Sleep, everyone wants it or better versions of it. Dr. Mia talks with Dr. Jaime Hughes about sleep for older adults. Jaime Hughes is an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Department of Implement...

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Honest Aging: what we gain with age with Dr. Rosanne Leipzig
April 11, 2023

Honest Aging: what we gain with age with Dr. Rosanne Leipzig

Dr. Mia talks with Dr. Rosanne Leipzig, a trailblazer in transforming the way we approach aging individually and as a society. In her 40+ year career, she has treated thousands of patients and trained hundreds of doctors and...

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Adult Children of Aging Parents (ACAP)
March 28, 2023

Adult Children of Aging Parents (ACAP)

Dr. Mia talks with Frances Hall and Bob Cain about the unique needs of adult children who are caring for their aging parents and how their organization Adult Children of Aging Parents (ACAP) helps. Frances Hall is the founder...

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Career in Geriatrics: Antidote to Burnout?
March 14, 2023

Career in Geriatrics: Antidote to Burnout?

Dr. Mia talks with Dr. Mariah Robertson and Dr. June Howell about seeming contradictions: geriatrics was the lowest filled medicine specialty in the 2022 match yet geriatricians are among the happiest physicians. 2022 Medicin...

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