Benefit or harm? Arguments for and against early detection of dementia in primary care

Journal Article Benefit or harm? Arguments for and against early detection of dementia in primary care Get access Heather Schickedanz, MD, Heather Schickedanz, MD Department of Family Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States Address correspondence to: Heather Schickedanz, MD. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, Anna Chodos, MD, MPH Division of Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Freddi Segal-Gidan, PhD, PA, Freddi Segal-Gidan, PhD, PA USC/Rancho California Alzheimer's Disease Center, Downey, California, United States Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jarmin Yeh, PhD, MPH, MSSW Jarmin Yeh, PhD, MPH, MSSW Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Policy & Aging Report, praf012, https://doi.org/10.1093/ppar/praf012 Published: 11 October 2025 Article history Received: 16 April 2025 Editorial decision: 16 June 2025 Published: 11 October 2025