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Committee considers resolution designating Frontotemporal Degeneration awareness week

House Health and Human Services Committee

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Summary

House Joint Resolution 19 would designate a week in September as Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) Awareness Week. Family members and national advocates described diagnostic delays, severe care needs and high financial burdens; supporters said the resolution would raise awareness and spur education and policy attention.

Representative James Reavis introduced House Joint Resolution 19, a resolution to declare a week in September as Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) Awareness Week. Reavis told the committee that FTD is often misdiagnosed because early symptoms are behavioral and personality changes rather than memory loss and that awareness is…

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