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Partners in FTD Care #14: Changes in Eating, and Managing Related Compulsive Behaviors
Changes in eating, combined with the ritualistic and repetitive behaviors and diminished social awareness that accompany FTD,…
Partners in FTD Care #13: The Loss of Empathy and Connection in FTD
This issue demonstrates the importance of understanding how strongly the loss of empathy and connection in FTD…
Partners in FTD Care #12: Sexual Behavior in FTD
When a person develops FTD, the disease can cause changes in sexual behavior; several types of changes…
Partners in FTD Care #11: Why Does He Act Like That? Aggressive Behaviors in FTD
This issue of Partners in FTD Care demonstrates how careful planning, behavioral interventions and other care strategies…
Partners in FTD Care #10: Incontinence Management in FTD
Incontinence for persons with FTD is quite different from incontinence in an older dementia population. Care partners…
Partners in FTD Care #9: When the Meaning Is Lost — Semantic Variant PPA
Individuals with semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) lose the meaning of words, develop difficulty recognizing faces…
Partners in FTD Care #8: FTD Symptom or Pain — How Can You Tell?
The unusual behavior of someone with FTD is not always what it seems. Because people with FTD…
Partners in FTD Care #7: In FTD, Roaming Is Not Wandering
Because of its early age of onset, people with FTD are often still physically active; their cognitive…
Partners in FTD Care #6: Activities for Individuals with FTD
People with FTD have impairments that affect participation in activities differently than people with Alzheimer’s. In this…
Partners in FTD Care #5: Nonfluent-variant PPA
In order to serve people with PPA in community settings, it is important to appreciate how the…
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