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I want to encourage anyone that is considering doing any test to determine DEMENTIA to please read your insurance policy.

Insurance companies have it written in to every auto policy I know of, that any dementia diagnosis will and does void your coverage of any accident.

The wording in my policy would become effective if I took this test and had the "gene", meaning I am paying for insurance but I would have no coverage.
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Before I get any medical test, I ask myself "What would I do if the test is positive?". If I wouldn't do anything different from what I am already doing, then I don't do the test. I am a senior citizen who has already lived a good life, so I no longer do screenings like colonscopies or mammograms, because I already know I wouldn't do the treatment. (That's just me, I'm not telling anyone else to do this.)

In the case of dementia, there is no cure as of yet. The current treatments offered are minimal and results are of negligible benefit with numerous side effects, so personally I would say "no" to a $475 dementia blood test that has only recently come into existence.

I would spend that money instead on updating all my legal documents so I don't leave my family in a lurch if I do get dementia.
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Well if you Google it(like I just did) it says that this blood test is for those already showing signs of cognitive impairment, and that it's not 100% foolproof and can occasionally yield a false positive or false negatives and cannot differentiate other non-Alzheimer's forms of dementia on its own.
The blood test is specifically for Alzheimer's disease, but as you know that is just one of many of the different forms of dementia, so not sure it would be worth the money unless you have money to blow, with no guarantee of the results.
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