The Relationship Between Subjective Cognitive Decline, Financial Interference, and Excess Spending in Older Adults with and Without Early Memory Loss

A brief self-report measure, SCD-F, effectively identifies older adults at risk of financial mismanagement, even absent formal cognitive impairment. Monitoring subjective cognitive concerns together with financial interference could enable early intervention. This brief measure may be useful in clinical settings as a screening tool, and in large national surveys.