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Help & Hope in Review: The Top Articles of 2024
AFTD is committed to ensuring Help & Hope delivers informative articles and practical resources to ease your family’s FTD journey. Each year, we look back through our archives to see which features…
Dear HelpLine: The Differences Between Clinical Research and Clinical Medical Care
Dear HelpLine, I have FTD and have enrolled in a research study at a major medical center. My care partner and I travel to the site twice a year and…
Linde Jacobs Shares Her Families FTD Journey with the New York Times
A recent article in The New York Times highlights the inspiring story of Linde Jacobs, a nurse and advocate carrying a genetic frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) variant. Her journey exemplifies the…
Empower a Future Free of FTD with a Year-End Gift
For over 20 years, AFTD’s volunteers, supporters, and partners raised awareness, supported one another, educated healthcare professionals, advanced research, and advocated for a better tomorrow. When you support AFTD’s mission,…
AFTD Research Team: A Year in Review
2024 has been a hopeful year for FTD Research, and it’s also been an exciting year for the AFTD research team. It isn’t easy to summarize all that’s been accomplished…
January 29, 2025: FTD Information Session in Plymouth, MN
AFTD Ambassador Nanci Anderson is hosting an FTD information session at the Plymouth Community Center in Plymouth, Minn. (14800 34th Avenue N.). She will provide an overview of FTD and…
Article Lists Ways Researchers Can Involve People with Dementia in Identifying Research Priorities
A research article published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society discusses how researchers can better involve people living with FTD and other types of dementia in discussions to…
Perspectives in FTD Research Webinar: FTD Research 2024 – Where We’ve Come From and Where We’re Headed
The science of FTD is evolving at a rapid pace and it can be difficult to interpret the scientific advancements and how they may impact families facing an FTD diagnosis.…
AFTD Ambassador Advocates on Behalf of the Older Americans Act
AFTD Ambassador Judy Bearer advocated for the reauthorization of the Older Americans Act (OAA) in a December 8 opinion article published on the website Cleveland.com. Ms. Bearer, who has been…
Advancing Hope: AFTD Attends 2024 Society for Neuroscience Meeting
Dr. Nicole Bjorklund, AFTD Director of Research and Grants, and Dr. Kate Still, Research Outreach Manager, attended the Society for Neuroscience meeting in October to take in the latest research…
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