New Alzheimer Disease Study Findings Recently Were Reported by Researchers at University of Utah (Planning Ahead or Living a Day at a Time? A Family…

New Alzheimer Disease Study Findings Recently Were Reported by Researchers at University of Utah (Planning Ahead or Living a Day at a Time? A Family History of AD and Retirement Planning)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Investment Weekly News -- Researchers detail new data in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Conditions - Alzheimer Disease. According to news reporting originating from Salt Lake City, Utah, by VerticalNews correspondents, research stated, "We assess whether a family history of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with the odds that healthy family members' engage in retirement planning activities. This is a cross-sectional study utilizing individual-level data from the Utah Population Database that have been linked to Medicare records and to responses from a retirement planning survey."

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of Utah, "Engagement in 3 retirement planning activities was estimated as a function of the number of parents and grandparents diagnosed with AD along with a set of fundamental socioeconomic and demographic covariates. Adults who had a parent with AD were 86% more likely to have seen a professional financial advisor and 40% less likely to plan to retire before age 65."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Caregiving costs and/or knowledge of the familial risk of developing AD may provide adult children with a forewarning of their own future financial needs that, in turn, motivates them to engage in retirement planning."

For more information on this research see: Planning Ahead or Living a Day at a Time? A Family History of AD and Retirement Planning. American Journal of Alzheimers Disease and Other Dementias, 2016;31(6):516-523. American Journal of Alzheimers Disease and Other Dementias can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA.

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting of Utah, Coll Social & Behav Sci, Salt Lake City, UT, United States. Additional authors for this research include K.R. Smith and R.N. Mayer.

Keywords for this news article include: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, North and Central America, Finance and Investment, Risk and Prevention, Epidemiology, Neurodegenerative Diseases and Conditions, Alzheimer Disease, University of Utah.

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