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April Newsletter 2022
"Nearly half of all older adults now die with a diagnosis of dementia": Whoa! You can just imagine how that lead sentence caught my attention. This study was done by a group at the University of Michigan who published their study in the April, 2022 issue of JAMA. The Michigan team used data from 3.5 million people over the age of 67 who died between 2004 and 2017. It focused on the bills their providers submitted to Medicare in the last 2 years of the patient's lives. The end-of-life billings with a dementia diagnosis went up from about 34% to around 47%. Folks, this is almost 50% of us. So that is why I take so many brain pills and suggest that those of you over a certain age might consider doing that, too.
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