Advancing Hope: AFTD-ADDF Partnership Announces New Award in Drug Discovery Program
AFTD has partnered with the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) since 2007 to support preclinical research on promising new drugs through the Accelerating Drug Discovery for FTD program. We are…
Read MoreViewpoints of FTD – Brain Donation
While there is currently no cure or approved treatments for FTD, increasing numbers of diagnostic tools and experimental treatments are entering the clinical trial phase of their development. A major…
Read MoreBringing Hope & Light to the Dementia Journey
AFTD volunteer Joni Ralph is hosting an event table at Bringing Hope & Light to the Dementia Journey at UW Stevens Point on August 6, 2024. The full day education conference…
Read MoreAFTD Volunteer Receives “Visionary of the Year 2024” Award for 40 Years of Advocacy
AFTD volunteer Wanda Smith received Alzheimer’s San Diego’s Visionary of the Year 2024 award for her FTD advocacy and awareness-raising efforts, which date back to the 1980s. Smith’s journey began…
Read MoreFrontotemporal Degeneration (FTD): Symptoms, Diagnosis, Responses, Outcomes, Family Stories
AFTD Volunteers Bruce Lipman and Erica Heffernan will be hosting an informational session at the Evanston Public Library on July 2 from 6-7:30 PM, CDT to offer powerful, personal perspectives…
Read MoreAFTD Volunteer Speaks about Trading Career for New “Vocation” as Caregiver
Alma Valencia, an AFTD volunteer in California, shared the challenges, stresses, and “moments of joy” she experiences as her mother’s caregiver in an as-told-to essay published recently in Business Insider.…
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