Millions of older Americans may be unaware they have memory and thinking impairments -- mostly because their doctors aren't diagnosing them, new research suggests.
researchers found that only a small percentage of expected cases of mild cognitive impairment were actually diagnosed. The upshot was that more than 7 million cases went undetected.
But more often, MCI has other, often reversible causes, said Dr. Saket Saxena, a geriatrician at the Cleveland Clinic who was not involved in the new research.," said senior study author Soeren Mattke, director of the Brain Health Observatory at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. "More needs to be done to support primary care doctors, by providing the information, tools and resources to increase early and accurate diagnosis," Edelmayer said.
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