Differentiating age-related memory loss from early dementia.
Memory loss occurs in more than 40% of individuals older than age 60. Alzheimer's disease (AD) or another type of dementia develops in some of these people, but others remain healthy. There is currently no reliable way to distinguish between these 2 outcomes.
Pokorski
Robert J
RJ
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