Is there any way I can find affordable insurance for my mother?

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Duane Lipham is a certified long-term care (CLTC) consultant who writes extensively on long-term care insurance issues. Lipham has also been a caregiver for...
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Duane Lipham said...

I have had these kind of memory issues arise from time to time with my clients too.

I find that most of the memory tests performed by the primary care physician tend to be very short in duration. If you want a definitive answer as to whether the diagnosis of the primary care physician is accurate or not, I suggest that you schedule a thorough memory exam with a neurologist instead. Neurologists tend to perform much more thorough and exhaustive tests and are much more reliable.

If the neorologist doesn't find any major memory issues, that will usually trump the original diagnosis of the primary care physician in the opinion of the insurance company.

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