The average life expectancy of people diagnosed with dementia ranges from 9 years at age 60 to 4.5 years at age 85 for women ...

The Dementia UK charity says FTD is an “umbrella term” for a group of dementias that mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the ... always found joy in life — and has helped ...

All but the FTD-MND patients had advanced clinical dementia (CDR=4-5). Compared with gender-matched mean control volumes, mean FTD volumes were reduced throughout the frontal lobes from stage 2 ...