Your Take: New Guidelines on Alzheimer’s

The Takeaway

Would you want to know whether or not you’ll have Alzheimer’s if you had the opportunity? The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association released new guidelines on the disease, in order to diagnose it earlier in its nascent stages as well as encourage more drug development. Readers and Takeaway listeners shared their own stories about the disease, worrying about the problems associated with early diagnosis. I don’t think I would want to know. I sure as hell wouldn’t want the insurance companies to know. Early screening and diagnosis sounds like a great way for insurance companies to expand the field of ‘pre-existing conditions,'” writes Takeaway listener, Miriam, from Westwood, NJ.

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