Understanding Behavioural Changes, Public Safety, and the Need for Better Canadian Supports Most Canadians are familiar with Alzheimer's disease and the memory loss that often accompanies it. Far fewer understand behavioural variant Frontotemporal Dementia (bvFTD), a devastating neurological disease that can fundamentally alter a person's personality, judgment, impulse control, and social behaviour. For families, the experience can be shocking. A once-kind spouse may become v

Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is the most common type of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) , accounting for about half of all FTD cases. It is sometimes also called frontotemporal dementia or Pick’s disease . What makes bvFTD different from many other dementias is that the earliest changes usually involve personality, behavior, and social awareness , rather than memory. A person may begin acting very differently from how they used to, sometimes in ways that