Frontotemporal dementia - Treamtent

Treatment-Frontotemporal dementia

Contents

1. Overview
2. Symptoms
3. Treatment

There's currently no cure for frontotemporal dementia, but there are treatments that can help manage some of the symptoms.

Care plans

Before treatment starts, your current and future health and social care needs will be assessed, and a care plan drawn up.

This is a way of ensuring you receive the right treatment for your needs. It involves identifying areas where you may need some assistance.

These may be:

• what support you or your carer need for you to remain as independent as possible – including whether you might need care at home or in a nursing home
• whether there are any changes that need to be made to your home to make it easier to live in
• whether you need any financial assistance

Frontotemporal dementia - Symptoms

Symptoms-Frontotemporal dementia

Contents

1. Overview
2. Symptoms
3. Treatment

Frontotemporal dementia usually causes changes in behaviour or language problems at first.

These come on gradually and get worse slowly over time.

Eventually, most people will experience problems in both of these areas. Some people also develop physical problems and difficulties with their mental abilities.

Frontotemporal dementia - Overview

Overview-Frontotemporal dementia

Contents

1. Overview
2. Symptoms
3. Treatment

Frontotemporal dementia is an uncommon type of dementia that mainly affects the front and sides of the brain (frontal and temporal lobes) and causes problems with behaviour and language.

Dementia is the name for problems with mental abilities caused by gradual changes and damage in the brain.

Dementia mostly affects people over 65, but frontotemporal dementia tends to start at a younger age. Most cases are diagnosed in people aged 45-65, although it can also affect younger or older people.

Like other types of dementia, frontotemporal dementia tends to develop slowly and get gradually worse over several years.