A Pentagon-funded study has highlighted how geriatric government officials' mental degeneration could pose a risk to national and global security.
The RAND Corporation's National Security Research Division noted in a report published earlier this year that as a consequence of people living longer and working later in life, "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," concluded the RAND researchers.
