A lot of people have trouble remembering stuff, but a new study suggests that the U.S. health care system isn’t doing enough about it.
Even though memory loss becomes much more likely as people age, a recent study found that older patients are in fact less likely than middle-aged ones to discuss memory loss with a doctor. That’s according to a recent study published in Preventing Chronic Disease, a journal affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control.
According to the research, which examined federal data on over 10,000 patients, only 23 percent of adults over the age of 45 reported discussing memory loss with a physician in 2011.
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