Comments on: What is frontotemporal dementia (FTD)?

By: Carrie Peterson

Carrie Peterson — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:41:57 +0000

Hi Rose, thank you for posting your comments and questions. Let me start by saying that it is best to talk to her neurologist or health care professional about the situation. They will be more familiar with her health and her symptoms and can better assess what would work best for her situation. This is my top recommendation I can give, and please be sure to bring up the illusions you mentioned.
People who have FTD can live by themselves in the earlier and milder stages of dementia, but at some point it will become unsafe and it is good to start coming up with a plan now, before something happens and that day arrives before you have thought about it.
Regarding calling her every day, perhaps it is best to keep these phone calls as social calls, rather than as obvious check-ins. She may be sensing that you are calling to check in on her and is likely not aware of the full extent of her FTD, so to her, it seems simply like you don’t think she is capable of living alone. While you may think this, it won’t be helpful to either of you if the phone calls center around this. Instead, reaffirm that you are calling because you care about her, were thinking of her and wanted to talk to her.
I hope you do take this conversation up with a health professional who knows her/you and the situation. Please feel free to update us and to ask any other questions you might have.

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By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 05:57:30 +0000

Can they live alone by themself and how can we control them to take pills ?! Can we talk to them about the problems she has?! She won’t listen and get angry when I call her everyday she said why yr calling me everyday ,….. She behave bad she loves me someday but she don’t want to see me Iam a stranger to her but she is good in reminding me of days that , she talks to some body passed away in midnight it’s scares me very much but she talk very sharp she don’t want to live with me and her grand daughter she is ok by her self and won’t accept strangers and this and happens has many illusions that she is talking about ,.!?????

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