Steve Landefeld, BEA director, said it was hard to predict the overall outcome given the mixture of new methodology and data updates.

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"This seemed to me a very brave, courageous decision, " especially because older people often don't recognize their own decline, said Dr. Seth Landefeld, an expert on aging and chairman of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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