Getting diagnosed with dementia isn’t the end. It’s a time to take financial action.
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The push to front-load financial and estate decisions after a dementia diagnosis underlines how brittle most households are to cognitive decline. Fintech and benefits operators have a clear gap to fill—products and workflows that assume diminished capacity and shared decision-making as a design constraint, not an edge case.
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