The last stages of frontotemporal dementia is the final stage which is characterized by language and behavior problems, memory issues and memory loss and physical problems such as muscle weakness, twitches, unsteadiness, slowness and stiffness.
A person in the last stages of frontotemporal dementia may also have trouble controlling their bladder and bowels and have difficulty eating and swallowing.
Frontal lobe dementia progresses gradually and slowly over several years although it can vary from person to person.
In the early stages of frontal lobe dementia the memory loss is often mild and can take a long time to develop and can last 2 to 10 years.
The middle stage of frontal lobe dementia a person experiences cognition declines and this stage lasts 2 years to 5 years.
The late stage of frontal lobe dementia a persons impairment increases, like loss of motor skills and dependence on caregivers and this stage can last 1 year to 5 years.
You can get frontotemporal dementia through a variety of ways including thyroid disease, head trauma, genetics and protein buildup.
Abnormal buildups of proteins called tau and TDP-3 build up in the brains nerve cells and damage those nerve cells and cause them to die.
The proteins then clump together and form tangles as well as pick cells and pick bodies.
Frontotemporal dementia is rare although it can occur in people as young as 20 and it usually begins in people between the ages of 40 to 60 years age.
The average onset of frontotemporal dementia is 54 years of age.
Frontotemporal dementia does run in families and can be caused by a faulty gene that is passed down from a parent to a child and is known as famillial FTD and affects around 10 to 15 out of every 100 people.
Genetic frontotemporal dementia is passed down in families in a dominant pattern which means that the child of a person with the frontotemporal dementia causing gene mutation has a 50 percent change of having the same mutation.
Around 40 percent of people that develop frontotemporal dementia will have at least one close relative that is diagnosed with some for of dementia, which includes Alzheimer's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Frontotemporal dementia affects your quality of life by causing communication difficulties, difficulties with basic work skills such as planning, following through on tasks, organizing and cause cognitive challenges.
Having frontotemporal dementia can make it difficult to plan, solve problems and organize and make it difficult for you to understand and express language.
People that have FTD may also speak slowly, use words incorrectly and struggle to make the correct sounds.
FTD can cause visual abnormalities like difficulty in judging space and distances, difficulty in recognizing objects and faces, difficulty in remembering visual details, difficulty maintaining attention to visual tasks and sensitivity to light.
When you have FTD it can affect your brain's signals that control eye movement and make it difficult to track a moving object, shift eye focus from one place to another and cause retinal thinning and thinner retinal nerve fiber layers.
An MRI can show frontotemporal dementia and show atrophy in the frontal and temporal lobes which are a hallmark sign of frontotemporal dementia.
MRIs can also detect small vessel ischemia and identify subdural hematomas, tumors and hydrocephalus.
Medications can help to control behavioral problems and speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy can help with movement, everyday tasks and communication.
The main cause of frontotemporal dementia is the buildup of abnormal proteins in your brain cells.
Abnormal amounts of forms of tau and TDP-43 proteins build up in your nerve cells and damage them and cause them to die.
Changes in genes such as mutations in the tau, GRN and C9ORF72 genes can also cause frontotemporal dementia.
Frontotemporal dementia is one of the less common types of dementia and is also called Pick's disease or frontal lobe dementia.
The early signs of frontotemporal dementia include personality changes such as apathy, depression, loss of interest in activities that the person used to enjoy, acting impulsively or inappropriately or a lack of social contact and language problems such as struggling to find the right words, using words incorrectly and speaking slowly.
Other early signs of frontotemporal dementia are getting distracted easily or having trouble planning and organizing as well as compulsive behaviors such as shaving, collecting or counting or repeating gestures or phrases.
Frontotemporal dementia is also known as frontal lobe dementia.
Frontal lobe dementia is a rare and progressive brain condition which damages the frontal lobes and the temporal lobes of your brain.
Frontal lobe dementia is the result of damage to the neurons in the temporal and frontal lobes of your brain.
A lot of different symptoms can result from frontal lobe dementia.
Some of the symptoms that can occur with frontal lobe dementia are trouble with communicating, difficulty with work, difficulty with walking, emotional problems and unusual behaviors.
Other symptoms of frontal lobe dementia include acting impulsively or inappropriately or appearing unsympathetic.
Speaking slowly, using words incorrectly or getting words in the wrong order are also symptoms of frontal lobe dementia.
Frontal lobe dementia gradually affects more and more areas of the brain and disrupts the abilities that those areas control.
The average life expectancy of someone after diagnoses with frontal lobe dementia is 7.5 years.
Frontal lobe dementia encompasses several types of dementia and involves the progressive degeneration of the brain's temporal lobes and frontal lobes.
Both men and women are equally affected from frontal lobe dementia.
Dementia is the name for problems with mental abilities caused by gradual changes and damage in the brain.
Frontotemporal dementia affects the front and sides of the brain (the frontal and temporal lobes).
The final and most advanced stage of frontal lobe dementia is stage 7.
At stage 7 frontal lobe dementia, living alone is almost impossible and people with stage 7 frontal lobe dementia experience severe cognitive impairment and decline.
And because there is no cure for frontotemporal dementia, the only treatments are to ease symptoms.
A person with frontal lobe dementia will continue to decline in a range of ways.