Social Cognition and the Aging Brain
Authors: Jason Karlawish
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2019)

Editorials21 May 2019Social Cognition and the Aging BrainJason Karlawish, MDJason Karlawish, MDUniversity of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (J.K.)Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/M19-0907 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail It all started with a telephone call. The woman who called was polite. My patient said it was hard to hang up on her. Several weeks later, he confessed to his grandson, “I think I've been had.” He had lost nine tenths of his wealth to a lottery scam. At first, the criminals took just a little money. The woman explained that he needed to pay fees to transfer his winnings. She got to know him. “What will you do with your winnings?” she asked. He told her about his grandson and his plans to support his college education. Later, ...References1. Boyle PA, Yu L, Schneider JA, Wilson RS, Bennett DA. Scam awareness related to incident Alzheimer dementia and mild cognitive impairment. A prospective cohort study. Ann Intern Med. 2019;170:702-9. doi:10.7326/M18-2711 LinkGoogle Scholar2. Han SD, Boyle PA, James BD, Yu L, Bennett DA. Mild cognitive impairment and susceptibility to scams in old age. J Alzheimers Dis. 2016;49:845-51. [PMID: 26519434] doi:10.3233/JAD-150442 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. Frith CD. Social cognition. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008;363:2033-9. [PMID: 18292063] doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0005 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. Spreng RN, Karlawish J, Marson DC. Cognitive, social, and neural determinants of diminished decision-making and financial exploitation risk in aging and dementia: a review and new model. J Elder Abuse Negl. 2016;28:320-44. [PMID: 27644698] CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. SEC approves rules relating to financial exploitation of seniors. 2017. Accessed at www.finra.org/industry/notices/17-11 on 6 March 2019. Google Scholar Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (J.K.)Disclaimer: The views in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Financial Support: By grant P30-AG01024 from the National Institute on Aging and by the Healthy Brain Research Network funded by the Alzheimer's Disease and Healthy Aging Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Healthy Brain Research Network is a thematic network of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Prevention Research Centers Program. Efforts were supported in part by cooperative agreement U48005053.Disclosures: Disclosures can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M19-0907.Corresponding Author: Jason Karlawish, MD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; e-mail, jason.[email protected]upenn.edu.This article was published at Annals.org on 16 April 2019. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsSee AlsoScam Awareness Related to Incident Alzheimer Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment Patricia A. Boyle , Lei Yu , Julie A. Schneider , Robert S. Wilson , and David A. Bennett Metrics Cited byGetting Interpersonal: Unmasking the Value of Social Cognition Assessment in Older AdultsAssessing Older Patients’ Risk Factors of Being Financially Exploited 21 May 2019Volume 170, Issue 10Page: 726-727KeywordsAgingBrainBrain diseasesCognitionDementiaElderlyHealth careMild cognitive impairmentPatientsRisk management ePublished: 16 April 2019 Issue Published: 21 May 2019 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2019 by American College of Physicians. All Rights Reserved.PDF downloadLoading ...