A lot of people have trouble remembering stuff, but a new studysuggests that the U.S. health care system isn’t doing enough aboutit.
Even though memory loss becomes much more likely as people age,a recent study found that older patients are in fact less likelythan middle-aged ones to discuss memory loss with a doctor. That’saccording to a recent study published in Preventing ChronicDisease, a journal affiliated with the Centers for DiseaseControl.
According to the research, which examined federal data on over10,000 patients, only 23 percent of adults over the age of 45reported discussing memory loss with a physician in 2011.
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