Questioning Medicine

Alzheimers disease—doesn’t say what you think it says https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6432?guestAccessKey=807ca0d3-63aa-48f9-8a1d-16df0d828d42&utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamainternalmedicine&utm_content=olf&utm_term=113020 Conclusions and Relevance Alzheimer disease and related dementias were associated with adverse financial events years prior to clinical diagnosis that become more prevalent after diagnosis I listen to a podcast and read articles and it seems omg this is great!! Maybe we look to see if people are missing payments or making poor financial decisions and screen them for alzheimers. Currently screening for alzheimers is difficult because we don’t have good treatment to slow or prevent the progression of the disease. Remember a few basic principles of screening are The condition should be an important health problem.There should be a treatment for the condition that can change