Dementia in US officials may represent national security risk, Pentagon-funded study says
by JACKSON WALKER | The National DeskMon, September 18th 2023, 11:07 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (TND) — U.S. officials with dementia may pose a national security threat, according to a study funded by the Pentagon.
Factors including longer life expectancy and more people working later in life are significant drivers of increased dementia in the U.S. workforce, the study published by RAND Corporation's National Security Research Division says.
“The workforce might experience a higher prevalence of dementia than in past generations. Taken together, we believe that an increasing number of cleared personnel—that is, personnel who hold or have held security clearances—have or will have dementia,” the study reads.
This, according to the study, increases the chances of individuals within the U.S. government with high security clearance experiencing dementia and becoming poor custodians of sensitive information. Though this issue presents a growing security risk, the study acknowledges that it will be a difficult one to counteract.
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