CRAZY OLD COOTS?
SO YOU SAY.
Are we getting a little ahead of ourselves?
There’s a big conference in New Hampshire – Preventing Overdiagnosis. One topic at the conference: How come everyone who forgets the least little nothing thing is – BAM – labeled with dementia or predementia?
David de Lecour ( professor of medicine at the University of Sidney) says (theconversation.com) that we’re using the great tools we have to detect lots of minor stuff. We’re “over calling” Alzheimer’s and related illnesses. The numbers seem to say that dementia’s becoming an epidemic; maybe some of that’s because we’re doing a better job in identifying it. But LeCour and a lot of other experts say we’re doing a little TOO good a job and should slow down the ball a little.
Who’s right?
There’s no ScienceAintSoBad Rating on this. I just don’t know.
But something to be aware of, okay?
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That drawing’s mine.