Mar 24 2015
NPR: 45% of Alzheimer’s patients aren’t told
On NPR this morning:
The report found that just 45 percent of Medicare patients who’d been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s said they were informed of the diagnosis by their doctor. By contrast, more than 90 percent of Medicare patients with cancer said they were told by their doctor.
“What we found is really shocking,” says Beth Kallmyer, vice president of constituent services for the Alzheimer’s Association. “This is reminiscent of what happened in the 1960s and 1970s with cancer,” she says. “But that’s changed now, and it really needs to change for Alzheimer’s as well.”
Everything old is new again.
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