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A 79-year-old man attends with his wife for the results of a memory assessment, which has confirmed mild Alzheimer disease. He lives at home, manages his own finances and medicines, and drives himself to the golf club twice a week; his wife has noticed no near misses and he has had no infringements. He listens to the diagnosis, repeats it and its implications back to you accurately, and asks whether anything now has to change. Which one of the following actions should his general practitioner take today?
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