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AFTD Stakeholders Highlight Need for More FTD Research at ADRD Summit

AFTD staff and Board members, along with representatives from the FTD Disorders Registry, attended the Alzheimer’s Disease-Related…

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AFTD Community Mourns Passing of VJ Anastasia

Valerie Jeanne “VJ” Anastasia, who was featured in AFTD’s short awareness film VJ & Chuck, died peacefully…

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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…

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NY Post Highlights Book by Former FTD Care Partner

An article published in the New York Post on January 22 chronicles one woman’s journey as an…

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AFTD Invests $2.5 Million in ADDF’s Diagnostics Accelerator Program to Develop FTD Biomarkers

Leveraging generous support from our donors, AFTD’s FTD Biomarkers Initiative is expanding. We are investing $2.5MM in…

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Elaine Rose

Every Contribution Counts

Soon after her husband was diagnosed with bvFTD in 2007, Elaine Rose attended an AFTD Education Conference…

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“Sharing Hope” — AFTD’s 2018 Annual Report

AFTD’s 2018 Annual Report documents progress made in the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2017 and ending…

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AFTD News: Fall 2018, Vol. 15, Issue 3

In this issue: World FTD Awareness Week 2018 Observed Around the Globe; Hope Rising 2018 Draws Record…

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Supporting Families from the Beginning

“For so long we wondered what was going on with Mom,” says Amber Dickson. Her mother’s behavior…

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Webinar: What You Should Know about Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)

   Dr. Emily Rogalski from Northwestern University in Chicago explores aspects of primary progressive aphasia that…

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