Many patients diagnosed with dementia don’t report having it, Yale study finds

Connecticut Public – Wednesday, September 30, 2026
By Sujata Srinivasan

A Yale study found that two-thirds of patients diagnosed with dementia were not aware they had the cognitive disease, or if they did, they chose not to report it.

Researchers in a Yale study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Aug. 26, looked at a broad survey of older Americans — the Health and Retirement Study, supported by the National Institute on Aging.

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