To screen, or not to screen (for dementia), that is still the question

By Judith Graham @ Kaiser Health News | March 11, 2020

A lead­ing group of med­ical experts on Tues­day declined to endorse cog­ni­tive screen­ing for old­er adults, fuel­ing a debate that has sim­mered for years. The U.S. Pre­ven­tive Ser­vices Task Force said it could nei­ther rec­om­mend nor oppose cog­ni­tive screen­ing, cit­ing insuf­fi­cient sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence of the practice’s ben­e­fits and harms and call­ing for fur­ther stud­ies. The task…

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Will Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit enhance physical & cognitive health? Probably — if people go

By SharpBrains | September 19, 2012

The annu­al well­ness vis­it: An oppor­tu­ni­ty to improve rev­enue and patient care (Phys­BizTech): “Medicare recent­ly intro­duced the Annu­al Well­ness Vis­it (AWV) to keep Medicare ben­e­fi­cia­ries healthy, or help Medicare ben­e­fi­cia­ries become health­i­er, by pro­mot­ing pos­i­tive health habits and a healthy lifestyle. Unlike 

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