Relocating from one state to another could make a significant difference in whether you receive a dementia diagnosis, regardless of your brain's actual state of health. An observational measure of the ' ' of disease and conducted by a team led by the University of Michigan in the US has uncovered a concerning degree of variation in cases between regions across the nation. Depending on your place of residence, you could be up to twice as likely to qualify as having a serious neurodegenerative condition, especially if you happen to be in your late sixties or early seventies.
Of course different populations will experience higher or lower for dementia, and there will always be demographic variations in . Yet even when contributing factors are accounted for, a concerning pattern remains. "These findings go beyond demographic and population-level differences in risk, and indicate that there are health system-level differences that could be targeted and remediated," lead author Julie Bynum, a geriatrician and health care researcher from the University of Michigan.
Determining whether an individual's cognitive decline is caused by requires a conducted by medical professionals who operate under a range of laws, guidelines, and recommendations. While medical definitions may be relatively consistent across county, state, and even national borders, human behavior is anything but predictable. Quirks in regional bureaucracy, individual interpretations of rules and regulations, budgetary d.