Opinion: We need to improve Medicare’s annual wellness visit to better detect early dementia
Medicare's annual wellness visit should catch more cases of early dementia, but it's falling short.
Mind-robbing Alzheimer’s disease, the leading cause of dementia in the United States, usually starts quietly and largely hidden from view. Its manifestations range from mild symptoms such as forgetting important dates and events to requiring round-the-clock care and help with daily living activities such as walking, eating, and bathing.
By the time Alzheimer’s is diagnosed, it’s generally too late to do much to halt it. One goal of the is to improve the detection of early stages of cognitive impairment, an Alzheimer’s precursor. Yet suggests that the wellness visit has fallen short of
