Decline in money management skills suggest Alzheimers is less than a year away

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Paying bills or counting change may seem like basic life skills to most, but for those who are about to slip into older-age dementia, the tasks can become increasingly difficult. And as fiscal functionality begins to fail, Alzheimer’s disease might be less than a year away, a new study suggests.”Impairments in financial skills and judgments are often the first functional changes demonstrated by patients with incipient dementia,” wrote the authors of the paper, (University of Alabama)which was published online today in Neurology. link to read full article