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Podcast: ComForConnections: Aging and Home Care Podcast
Episode: Frontotemporal Dementia: Best Practice Strategies
Description: Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) is the most common form of dementia for individuals under 60, impacting roughly 50,000 people in the U.S. However, experts consider that number to be a vast undercount because of how challenging it can be to diagnose.Â
FTD is a progressive disease, and the progression length varies from 2 to over 20 years. In the early stages, people may have just one symptom. As the disease progresses, other symptoms appear as more parts of the brain are affected.
There is no cure for FTD, but there are ways to help manage the symptoms. For Aging S...