The Washington Post (11/27, Chiu) reports “research…suggests that adverse financial events associated with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias…can start happening years before people are clinically diagnosed.”
MedPage Today (11/30, George) reports that investigators “linked consumer credit report outcomes from 1999 to 2018 to claims data for 81,364 Medicare beneficiaries living in single-person households.” The study revealed that “as early as six years before they were diagnosed with dementia, people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias were more likely to miss credit account payments than their peers without dementia.” In addition, they “were more likely to develop subprime credit scores 2.5 years before their dementia diagnosis,” researchers concluded. The findings were published online in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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