Research led by Dr. Katya Numbers from UNSW’s Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA) has shown that certain presentations of memory concerns by older adults are predictive of future dementia.
The findings published today in PLOS ONE highlight the importance of general practitioners in listening to their older adult patient population in relation to memory.
“We found that when older adults go to their general practitioner with memory-specific subjective cognitive complaints it would be wise to take it seriously as they may predict future dementia,” says Dr. Numbers.
Subjective cognitive complaints refer to an individual’s self-experience of cognitive decline.
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