Getting your player ready...
WASHINGTON — There’s no easy test for Alzheimer’s disease. Yet an Alzheimer’s group this week begins a push for simple memory screenings in a bid to catch possible warning signs of dementia sooner.
Memory screenings — five-minute mini-tests, doable at a health fair — are controversial. But the provocative new report from the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America contends they’re a valuable but overlooked tool. The government has begun reviewing if there’s enough science to back broader use of them. The report calls on Medicare to make memory screening part of more new-patient checkups.
