FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease

If you do go into long-term care, Medicaid will probably seize your assets to help pay for everything. For example, a house in your name. They'll use those to pay back what they paid for your care.

So if you're gonna get sick and you're gonna be a burden in your old age, best to plan for leaving this world the way you came in: naked and penniless.

The only other alternative is some sort of mental hospital which is more like a prison than anything else.

Isn’t the viewpoint in the last decade that amyloid plaques are likely a finding rather than the underlying cause of Alzheimer’s Disease?

what medication is that?

It’s also not clear that one can measure progression well enough that an n=1 data point is meaningful. And I’m also far from convinced that very early Alzheimer’s that would progress rapidly enough to be noticeable can be detected with enough specificity to rule out fairly common cases of people who test positive but effectively don’t have the disease.

Best wishes to your friend’s wife.

Seems much better use of time and money to have people developing tests meet a pre-defined standard and after that point they're allowed to flood doctors with marketing for the tests.

What use is future medical advancements if it can't meet low bars like proving it works?

There is potential harm from the procedure itself because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_constraint and because sticking needles in people and drawing blood carries inherent medical risks.

But only another medical professional would know that; the patients were completely oblivious. I said she should blow the whistle but she “didn’t want to rock the boat”. It definitely changed how I feel about doctors. There’s a massive level of trust there, which most doctors will honor but a few will exploit.

This is like saying AI developers should be qualified to evaluate the effacy of a model without testing the model.

Entering a study for people who tested positively would also be voluntary.

Anecdotal responses in this topic indicate there may be some mitigatimg medicines.

Demanding a root cause before doing anything is silly. Finding root cause in biological systems is incredibly difficult; there's value in finding symptoms and managing symptoms without finding a root cause. And dangers of focusing too much on any one indicator.

That's not to say I suggest everyone be screened for everything. If there are limited mitigations, it's not appropriate for most people to be screened. But even if there are no medical mitigations, you might put your affairs in order with appropriate urgency if you knew your cognition would be much reduced in the next 5-10 years.