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Positive Approaches in Residential Facility Care
Partners in FTD Care Winter 2019 Without adequate staff preparation, transitioning a person with FTD and anosognosia symptoms into a residential care community can be challenging. Persons with FTD are often young, physically healthy and active, and exhibit a range…
Family Caregivers’ Unique Support Needs
Partners in FTD Care Winter 2019 An FTD diagnosis presents families with an overwhelming and ever-changing list of new priorities, limitations, and responsibilities. Research shows that caring for someone with FTD is more expensive and is associated with more health…
Financial Safety and Anosognosia
Partners in FTD Care Winter 2019 Financial supervision early in FTD care is extremely important, particularly when anosognosia is a factor. Mary is a registered nurse and single mother to two sons in high school. After her 50th birthday, she…
What to Do About… Anosognosia
Partners in FTD Care Winter 2019 Anosognosia is a lack of awareness of one’s own condition and can be a symptom of FTD because of the specific region of the brain that is affected. The person with FTD may not…
Everything Is Just Fine: Anosognosia in Frontotemporal Degeneration
Partners in FTD Care, Winter 2019 Download the full issue (pdf) Caring for people with FTD presents challenges no matter what. Anosognosia can make it even more difficult. Anosognosia is the inability to recognize or perceive one’s illness and its…
Help & Hope #47
Issue #47: February 2019 In this issue we provide a registration link for the 2019 Education Conference, information about support groups for persons diagnosed, profiles of our 2018 Pilot Grant recipients, several ways to participate in our With Love campaign,…
Austin Marathon
Join select AFTD staff and members of the local community as we bring greater FTD awareness to the surrounding Austin area and raise funds to help people affected by FTD. The AFTD-Team will participate in the Austin Marathon on February…
Sacramento, CA Meet & Greet
Meet and Greet Part Two! As a follow up to AFTD’s Sacramento Meet and Greet on 6/10/18, please join AFTD Volunteer Terry Walter and AFTD Board Member Beth Walter for an informal gathering to meet others in your community whose…
Spread the Love with AFTD’s With Love Campaign 2019
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner – and with it comes the return of AFTD’s annual With Love campaign. For the past seven years, With Love has shown that the force of love is stronger than FTD, and has…
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