Lauren Hersch Nicholas is the lead author on a new paper published in JAMA Internal Medicine that found Medicare beneficiaries who go on to be diagnosed with dementia are more likely to miss payments on bills as early as six years before a clinical diagnosis. In collaboration with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the University of Michigan Medical School, the researchers also found that beneficiaries diagnosed with dementia who had a lower educational status missed payments on bills beginning as early as seven years before a clinical diagnosis as compared to 2.5 years prior to a diagnosis for beneficiaries with higher educational status. Read the full press release here and media coverage in The Washington Post, the Miami Herald, the Boston Globe, and AARP.