NIH R01 · 2024
Epidemiologic Study of Decision Making in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
ABSTRACT Older adults face some of life’s most complex and influential decisions, just as cognitive, social, and other resources decline. Poor decision making, particularly in financial and health matters, poses enormous public health and economic challenges. Financial fraud offers an alarming example; older adults are among the most vulnerable and lose >$35 billion to fraud annually. The reasons why remain unclear, however, as decision making is a relatively nascent focus of aging research. In 2010, we began a study of decision making in the Rush Memory and Aging Project, an ongoing longitudinal clinical-pathologic study of aging. In the first two cycles, we enrolled >1,300 older adults,…
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