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Alzheimer's Takes a Financial Toll Long Before Diagnosis, Study Finds
- toxicdevil 2y agoCDC defines dementia: > Dementia is not a specific disease but is rather a general term for the impaired ability to remember, think, or make decisions that interferes with doing everyday activities. Article says: > Long before people develop dementia, they often begin falling behind on mortgage payments, credit card bills and other financial obligations, new research shows. > Credit scores among people who later develop dementia..... Author is conflating the diagnosis of dementia with the development of dementia. It is not like a person wakes up one day with dementia. It progresses slowly. Early stage dementia is still dementia. I don't know what the formal requirements for diagnosis are but my guess is that that has to be a significant quality of life degradation for it to be diagnosed (or even for someone to be taken to see a doctor for that matter). > New research shows that people who develop dementia often begin falling behind on bills years earlier. I would say something like "New research shows that people in early stages of dementia often begin falling behind on bills years before it can be diagnosed."
- brain-tree 2y agoIt is not about "can diagnose" we refuse to diagnose more minor decline as dementia for social and political reasons. The study quantitatively evaluates some of the costs of a political choice to limit medicine to treating only a decline well bellow the average (instead of the individual's peak) and bellow the ability to perform self care as a disease.
- potatoball 2y agohttps://archive.is/8zGgy https://archive.is/8zGgy
- justinclift 2y ago> make impulsive purchases My (elderly) father is unfortunately doing this now. Blowing any spare cash he has on crap from Ali Express. Ugh. :( :( :(
- djmips 2y agoBut wait. That's also me, no dementia, not elderly. hahah. OK hopefully a lot of what I'm buying is not crap.
- justinclift 2y ago> no dementia I dunno dude... are you sure? :D
- toomuchtodo 2y agoIs seeking a conservatorship feasible? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatorship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatorship
- justinclift 2y agoSuper unlikely to be a good idea if I want to keep breathing. :(
- toomuchtodo 2y agoDying destitute is the alternative, from first hand experience. Hope it works out, my condolences.
- justinclift 2y agoThanks, and yeah, that's a good point.