{"id":836207,"date":"2026-09-04T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/836207\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:58:09","slug":"frontotemporal-dementia-often-starts-in-midlife-and-signs-are-easy-to-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/836207\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontotemporal dementia often starts in midlife \u2014 and signs are easy to miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FS36KHMXBRDZNA6GMN4T7SOO4Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">If you\u2019ve heard of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), it may be because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2023\/02\/16\/bruce-willis-frontotemporal-dementia-ftd-symptoms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Willis<\/a> or Wendy Williams \u2014 two celebrities whose diagnoses in recent years have shed light on this infrequently discussed neurodegenerative disease. Though FTD is relatively rare, accounting for about 5 percent to 10 percent of all dementia cases and affecting an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 people in the United States, it\u2019s the most common form of early-onset dementia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve heard of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), it may be because of Bruce Willis or Wendy Williams \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-836207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}