The family of famed actor Bruce Willis recently announced the actor has been diagnosed FTD, frontotemporal dementia, the most common form of dementia affecting people under 60. Journalist Bill Whitaker of the CBS’ 60 Minutes program takes viewers on a journey to understand what he calls “the cruelest disease you never heard of” — frontotemporal dementia — and why it isn’t better known.
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Memory Box for Dementia
FILL A MEMORY BOX with photos and memorabilia of a person with dementia, then position it by their door. See it re-orient them, trigger conversations, make a doorway one’s own, and mostly, stimulate memories of good times.
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