This chapter provides an overview of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), highlighting its differences from Alzheimer's disease. It discusses the devastating impact of FTD on individuals and their caregivers, emphasizing the challenges they face in obtaining a diagnosis and accessing appropriate care. The chapter also emphasizes the need for increased awareness and recognition of FTD in the medical community.
Frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, is tricky to pick up at the doctor's office and impossible to cure.
And for those who live with the condition, their families and their carers, the situation can be very challenging.
On All in the Mind this week, we hear from those people and a researcher who has spent decades working on the condition.