Does Disability Insurance Cover Dementia? 
A diagnosis of Dementia should be covered as an illness under a short or long term disability plan if it was in force prior to dianosis . The elimination period would not begin until the dementia was deemed by a physician to be to the point that your normal duties of your job could no longer be performed . Typically dementia progresses slowly in younger adults still working . Most disability policies end around age 65 or 67 years old when this disease is more likely to progress . 