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While frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the most common cause of dementia under age 60, its behavioral variant (bvFTD) has a highly variable onset. What is the age of onset for behavioral variant FTD, and how does this timing influence the disease's presentation and progression?
Affecting around 60% of people between the ages of 45 and 64, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) presents an especially challenging and painful reality for both patients and their families. Here we explain why is frontotemporal dementia so bad, delving into the factors that make it a uniquely devastating disease.
While dementia is most commonly associated with older age, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) often begins earlier, between the ages of 45 and 65. Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), the most common subtype of FTD, is characterized by prominent personality and behavioral changes, with symptoms typically presenting in a person's 50s and 60s, though onset can range widely from the 20s to the 80s.
