Lack of Diagnosis Creates Added Risks for Those With Dementia

Dementia which is a chronic disorder of the mental state, which results in having memory disorder, impaired reasoning, and personality changes. Dementia is mostly found among elderly people, who have experienced trauma or brain injury. More individuals suffer from this disease, more than diagnosed. A new study has found that many people who show signs of dementia are not diagnosed, which is doing more harm than good.

“A Johns Hopkins study on data from more than 7,000 older Americans has found that those who show signs of probable dementia but are not yet formally diagnosed are nearly twice as likely as those with such a diagnosis to engage in potentially unsafe activities, such as driving, cooking, and managing finances and medications.”

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