Community Connection: Open Office Hours for Support Group Volunteers
AFTD Support Services Coordinator Erin Ficca has started hosting Open Office Hours for Support Group Volunteers twice a month. One of these monthly meetings is assigned a theme, based on…
Read MoreAugust’s Volunteer of the Month: Alyssa Radcliff
Alyssa Radcliff has served as the facilitator for AFTD’s national virtual support group for parents for over five years. Prior to taking on that role, Alyssa was a member of…
Read MoreAugust’s Athlete of the Month: Joyce Lis
AFTD’s Athlete of the Month for August is Joyce Lis from New Jersey. Joyce uses the Charity Miles app as she walks in memory of her long-time friend and colleague…
Read More“Dementia Village” Care Facility Model Gives Residents More Freedom
A recent report by Vox featured a Dutch “dementia village” that gives residents a great deal of freedom in a carefully tailored, familiar-feeling setting. The Hogeweyk, located just outside Amsterdam…
Read MoreStudy Finds Similarities Between bvFTD and Schizophrenia
A study recently published in JAMA Psychiatry revisited a 120-year-old theory on “premature dementia” and has discovered similarities and some degree of overlap between schizophrenia and behavior variant frontotemporal degeneration…
Read MoreNIH Unveils Web Portal to Give Researchers Access to Stem Cell Lines for FTD
The National Institutes of Health’s Center for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias (CARD) recently unveiled a new web portal to share stem cell lines used for the study of neurodegenerative conditions,…
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