Study: Missed credit card payments could be early sign of dementia – NEWS.com.au

Missing credit card and loan payments could be an early sign of dementia years before diagnosis, a new study has found.The study, Financial Presentation of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias, published Monday in the medical journal JAMA, analysed the credit card data and payments of Medicare patients living alone across the US over an almost a 20-year period.
Patients with Alzheimer’s and related dementia were more likely to miss payments up to six years before getting diagnosed, the study…

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