HealthDay (10/26, Norton) reports, “Millions of older Americans may be unaware they have memory and thinking impairments – mostly because their doctors aren’t diagnosing them, new research suggests.” Investigators found, “after analyzing Medicare data covering 40 million older Americans…that only a small percentage of expected cases of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) were actually diagnosed.” According to HealthDay, “The upshot was that more than 7 million cases went undetected.” The research was published in The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease.
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— “7 Million Americans Have Mild Cognitive Impairment and Don’t Know It,”Amy Norton, HealthDay , October 26, 2023