Dementia Isn’t One Disease ~ Bruce Willis' Unfortunate Diagnosis
frontotemporal dementia: What are the symptoms of FTD?
In photos and video obtained by the Daily Mail, the Bruce had a day out with two friends in Santa Monica, Calif. on Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 (and clearly made time for grounding himself in the warm moist sand, one of our favorite activities!)
By Richard Sima
Kelyn Soong
Caitlin Gilbert
and Marlene Cimons
The Washington Post
February 16, 2023 at 9:07 p.m. EST
Actor Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a rare type of dementia, his family announced Thursday. The disease, also known as frontotemporal lobar degeneration, has no treatment or cure.Willis’s family said in March that he had been diagnosed with aphasia, a communication disorder, and was retiring. In their announcement Thursday, Willis’s family said his “condition has progressed and we now have a more specific diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia.” Article in its entirety here...“It’s a relatively recently described disease,” said Constantine Lyketsos, director of the Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment Center and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. “We’ve heard of Alzheimer’s for over 100 years” but FTD is much less common, he said. “So the fact that it’s more recent and less common means we know much less about it than we’d like to.”
