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Mom of Young Woman with FTD Writes About Need for Quality In-Home Care

A New Hampshire newspaper featured an editorial on June 5 emphasizing the importance of quality in-home caregiver…

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Spotlight On…Teresa Webb, Persons with FTD Advisory Council

Teresa Webb and her wife Denise   With COVID-19 restrictions and limitations still impacting this year’s Pride…

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Sparks of Silver, by Sarah Kneeland

Sparks of silver in her hair Cast glints of sunlight everywhere. Her gaze laid bare my soul…

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AFTD Board Member Kristin Holloway Discusses FTD Research Fund in “San Francisco Business Times”

AFTD Board of Directors member Kristin Holloway and her husband, Lee Holloway, were featured in a May…

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Husband with FTD, Mistaken for Having Midlife Crisis, Profiled in UK Newspaper

A UK-based newspaper highlighted persons impacted by FTD, including one man living with FTD who many believed…

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Spotlight on… Amy Shives, AFTD’s Persons with FTD Advisory Council

Amy Shives had one mission for this year’s upcoming AFTD Education Conference: To ensure that the voices,…

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Spotlight On…Laura and Sarah Silver

The adage β€œa picture is worth a thousand words” holds more truth than clichΓ© for mother-daughter duo…

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Spotlight on… Steve Perlis, AFTD Persons with FTD Advisory Council

In 2018, Steve Perlis talked himself out of being aΒ spokespersonΒ for persons diagnosed with FTD,Β reluctantΒ toΒ be considered the β€œposter…

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Spotlight on… Anne Fargusson, AFTD Persons with FTD Advisory Council

It’s been nearly two decades since Anne Fargusson started feeling the effects of FTD. Today, she is…

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Australian Newspaper Profiles People Living with FTD

The Sydney Morning Herald chronicled the lives of Australians diagnosed with dementia, including several persons living with…

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