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Mild cognitive impairment – an early stage of dementia – is widely underdiagnosed in people 65 and older. That is the key takeaway of two recent studies from our team.In the first study, we used Medicare data for about 40 million beneficiaries age 65 and older from 2015 to 2019 to estimate the prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in that population and to identify what proportion of them had actually been diagnosed. Our finding was sobering: A mere 8% of the number of cases with mild cognitive impairment that we…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain "First comes love, then comes marriage"—so goes the classic children's rhyme. But not everyone agrees. Increasingly, the idea that love is the most important reason to marry—or at least to stay married—is under attack. Republican pundits and lawmakers have been pushing back on the availability of no-fault divorce, challenging the idea that not being in love is a valid reason to end a marriage.…

Just paying for Netflix or Hulu seems like no big deal, but a new report from Deloitte suggests most Americans are paying for four streaming services. That’s pushing Americans to the brink, leading to the average household spending $61 a month on streaming. Half of the study’s respondents said they would cancel a streaming subscription if prices go up by another $5.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor Picks“This year’s Digital Media Trends shows that U.S. households are spending more…

The House of Representatives a measure targeting data brokers’ ability to sell Americans’ personal data to “adversary” countries, like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. The Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act passed with a unanimous 414 - 0 vote.The , which was introduced alongside a measure that could force a ban or sale of TikTok, would prohibit data brokers from selling Americans’ “sensitive” data to people or entities in “adversary” countries. Much like a recent from President Joe Biden…

Contributors to Scientific American’s April 2024 IssueWriters, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories Credit: Gioncarlo ValentineGioncarlo Valentine, Families Under Attack For this issue’s story by journalist Marla Broadfoot on families threatened by anti-LGBTQ legislation, photographer Gioncarlo Valentine (above) took a drive down the East Coast from Massachusetts to Florida. “I do a lot of road trips,” he says. “I think I enjoy processing in between the stops.” In the car, he and…

Americans have low levels of support for democratic norm violations. Credit: Derek E. Holliday, Shanto Iyengar, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood Recently, fundamental tenets of democracy have come under threat, from attempts to overturn the 2020 election to mass closures of polling places. A new study from the Polarization Research Lab, a…

A rather interesting report was shared by Allstate Protection Plans. The company says that a ton of Americans damaged their smartphones in the last year (both Android & iOS), 78 million of them, to be exact. This survey was conducted in May and December 2023, and it gathered 1,004 responses. Just to be fully transparent. A lot of Americans damaged their smartphones in the last year While this number is quite high, it’s lower than in 2020. Back then, 87 million Americans damaged their smartphones. Since then, however,…

Blame it largely on the pandemic, which weakened the hold the workplace held on people’s psyches. Blame it largely on the pandemic, which weakened the hold the workplace held on people’s psyches. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of…

There’s a Gordian knot at the heart of the AI boom in healthcare. Artificial (or depending on who you talk to, “augmented”) intelligence is already a solidly established tool in the medical system from X-ray imaging analysis to streamlining hospital billing to how the medicines your doctor might prescribe are discovered in the first place. Yet 69% of Americans staunchly oppose the idea of AI replacing doctors to diagnose disease, according to a new Salesforce survey, while still supporting the technology overall if it…

A Rutgers Health study analyzing Medicare records revealed nine end-of-life care trajectories for older Americans, categorized into home, skilled home care, and institutional care clusters. This research aims to tailor end-of-life care interventions to individual preferences, improving care quality and reducing costs by understanding the factors influencing these care patterns. Credit: SciTechDaily.comA Rutgers Health analysis of millions of Medicare records has laid the groundwork for improving end-of-life care by…