Juergen Bludau, MD

Dr. Juergen H. Bludau was born in Germany and educated in England. He received his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and completed his postgraduate studies in the USA. He is a board-certified, Harvard fellowship-trained Geriatrician, and the Executive Medical Director of Geriatrics, Medical Director of Home Health, and Director of the Memory/Mobility Center at the Elliot Health System. Dr. Bludau’s interests are the primary care of dementia patients, the development of improved out- and inpatient geriatric services, and the geriatric education of nurses. To that extent, he has developed a curriculum for practicing nurses and has given several courses at Beijing Hospital No. 1 and Fudan University School of Nursing in Shanghai. Dr. Bludau is the author of “Aging, But Never Old” and the co-author of “Alzheimer’s Disease” in the series Biographies of Disease.