For Providers
The Layton Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease Center offers clinical services in the Aging and Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Assessment Clinics at the OHSU Center for Health and Healing. We offer a multidisciplinary approach and our clinics are staffed by experienced neurologists, psychologists, nurses, and a psychiatric nurse practitioner.
Clinic services include:
- Comprehensive neurological/cognitive assessment and diagnosis for memory problems and cognitive deficits,
- Participation in clinical trials of new medications or other research participation opportunities,
- Ongoing clinical care of behavioral and neurologic symptoms, coordinated with the patient’s primary care provider
- Medication review
- Referrals to new and innovative tools and technologies to compensate for activity deficits (e.g. speech, occupational, or language therapy)
- Referral for driving evaluation
- Referral for a diagnostic question, second opinion, or inclusion in a study
Referrals
For a patient to be seen in the clinic, a referral from the patient's Primary Care Provider is required. Timely feedback via fax will be provided to the referring physician.
To make a referral, please:
- Fax referral form to 503 494-8390
- Send the patient’s medical records from the past 1 to 2 years including labs, neuropsychological testing and brains scans to:
Layton Aging & Alzheimer’s Disease Center
OHSU
3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd. (CR131)
Portland, OR 97239
- For further information, please contact the Neurology Department referral line at 503 494-7772 or the Layton Center at 503 494-6976.
Research Studies
Research at the Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Center is integrated around the activities of the Oregon Alzheimer’s Disease Center (OADC), one of 30 national centers funded by the National Institute of Aging. The OADC ranks among the top centers nationally. The OADC is at the forefront of a worldwide effort to discover the causes of Alzheimer’s disease, find effective treatments, and improve the quality of life for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The criteria for each study are different. By selecting the name of the study, you will learn more about the nature of the study and will be able to request additional information.
Clinical Trials and Intervention Studies currently recruiting volunteers
Alzheimer's Disease Studies
- Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Core
- Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Trial of Bapineuzumab in patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease
- Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Two Dose-Arm, Parallel Study of the Safety and Effectiveness of Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human), 10% (IGIV, 10%) for the Treatment of Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease
- A Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Efficacy of a Medical Food in Patients with Mild to Moderate Alzheimer's Disease using Alzheimer's Disease Medication
- MRI of the Aging Brain
- Satoris, Plasma Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for Dementia and Progressive Aphasia
- A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacodynamic and Pharmacokinetic Effects of BMS-708163 in the Treatment of Patients with Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease
Caregiver Studies
- Meditation or education for Alzheimer caregivers: stress and physiology (aka The Alzheimer's Caregiver study)
Long Term Longitudinal Community Studies
These studies provide a clinical assessment of a patient over a long period of time in order to investigate disease course and risk factors.
OBAS - Oregon Brain Aging Study focuses on identifying factors that protect individuals from developing dementia in later life and promote a maximal cognitive health span.
CBDP - Community Brain Donor Program
AADAPt - The African American Dementia and Aging Project is a longitudinal study of brain aging in elderly African Americans in Northeast Portland.
KEAP - Klamath Exceptional Aging project is a community based study that follows longitudinally, rural residing persons 85 or older in the Klamath basin of Oregon.
ISAAC – Intelligent Systems for Assessment of Aging Changes Study
