Healio (10/14, Herpen) reported, “In older adults with dementia, Black patients were less likely to receive a diagnosis than white patients, with the difference increasing over three years following symptom onset,” investigators concluded after conducting “a retrospective cohort study utilizing survey data from the 1995 to 2016 Health and Retirement Study…linked with Medicare fee-for-service claims.” The findings of the 3,435-older adult study were published online in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Related Links:
— “Diagnosis gap widens from symptom onset between Black, white patients “Robert Herpen, Healio, October 14, 2022