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Aging in America Conference

We invite you to join the 2019 Aging in America Conference, which takes place in New Orleans, April 15-18. Nearly 3,000 professionals who work with older adults will meet at the conference to discuss a multitude of issues affecting older…

2019 AFTD Education Conference Breakout Sessions

Clinical Issues (1:15 p.m.) Managing Behavioral Variant FTD Chuang-Kuo Wu, MD, PhD Marianne Sanders, RN Amy and George Shives Jill Shapira, PhD, RN, facilitator Explore behavioral variant FTD from four distinct and complementary perspectives – from the clinical perspective, a…

AFTD Thanks Our Volunteers!

In honor of National Volunteer Appreciation Week (April 7-13), the staff of AFTD would like to thank all our amazing volunteers for donating their time and talents in support of our mission! To learn more about becoming an AFTD volunteer,…

Help & Hope #49

Issue #49: April 2019 In this issue we provide registration links for AFTD’s 2019 Education Conference — whether you will be joining us in person or tuning in via LiveStream, an article about using Awareness Cards to navigate social situations,…

AFTD Volunteer Featured in Recent Episode of The Alzheimer’s Podcast

AFTD volunteer Deborah Dolan was recently interviewed by the Dementia Sherpa, Christy Turner, on The Alzheimer’s Podcast. Throughout the episode, Christy and Deborah endeavor to raise awareness of frontotemporal degeneration, while bringing it out of the shadow of Alzheimer’s disease….

2019 AFTD Education Conference: May 3, 2019

Register today! The 2019 AFTD Education Conference will be held on May 3, 2019 in Los Angeles. Join us for a day of learning, sharing and making connections with others in the FTD community. Every year, AFTD brings together people…

Messages of Hope

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Massachusetts General Hospital FTD Unit Education Day

Massachusetts General Hospital will host the 8th Annual From Care to Cure FTD Unit Education Day on Friday, April 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will take place at the Westin Hotel in Waltham, Massachusetts. Persons diagnosed…

PPA Study Identifies Brain Region That Only Processes Speech

A study of individuals with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) revealed a region of the brain that only processes speech – which, when it begins to degenerate, leaves persons diagnosed with PPA unable to comprehend spoken words but able to understand…