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Hosna’s story: diagnosis

Hosna’s story: diagnosis video. Shaheen describes the steps leading to her mother's diagnosis of behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia.

Shaheen describes Hosna’s route to a diagnosis, from an initial memory test didn’t pick up the symptoms, to having a brain scan, and noticing that the symptoms fitted behavioural variant FTD.

Look at the factsheet under ‘downloads’ below to find the kind of background information that Shaheen found helpful.

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The Many Faces of Dementia

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