EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The years preceding a dementia diagnosis come with the risk of significant financial losses.
What is driving these losses, and what can be done to mitigate them?
Although financial losses may be triggered by cognitive issues, they may also make such issues worse.
Taken together, these research threads point to a vicious cycle that may exist between financial and cognitive losses.
Such cases, though rare, constitute an extreme and unforeseen driver of major financial stress.
These include social engagement, cognitive engagement, stress management, exercise, quality sleep, and dietary considerations.
They may benefit from resources to help them decide when and how to encourage clients to see a doctor.
Physicians, meanwhile, may benefit from added outreach and training on earlier dementia and MCI diagnosis.
What is driving these losses, and what can be done to mitigate them?
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