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Missing credit card payments may be an early sign of dementia, study says – 7NEWS.com.au
The authors of a new study hope that patients or their loved ones can start to realise something is wrong before it’s too late.
Patterns of missing credit card and loan payments could be an early indicator of dementia years before diagnosis, a new study says.
The study, published Monday in the medical journal JAMA, looked at Medicare patients living alone across the United States and analysed their credit data and payments over time.
Researchers found that patients with Alzheimers disease and related dementia were more likely to miss payments up to six years before getting diagnosed, the study said.
And, those poor financial…
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