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When “It’s Not Alzheimer’s”: Why Canada’s Medical Community Must Deepen Its Understanding of FTD
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is one of the most misunderstood and under-recognized neurodegenerative diseases in Canada. For families, the journey to diagnosis is often long, confusing, and emotionally devastating. For medical professionals, it can be an uncomfortable clinical challenge; rare, complex, and lacking a single definitive diagnostic test during life. But that discomfort cannot become inaction. If we are to truly support patients and families living with FTD, we m
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