Welcome to From Care to Cure, a podcast from the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit.  Our first episode of season 2 features a conversation between our host, Katie Brandt, the Director of Caregiver Support Services and Public Relations at the MGH FTD Unit, and Nneka Watson, a staff speech language pathologist within the Unit, about the role that speech language pathologists can play on an FTD care team.

Learn more about primary progressive aphasia (PPA) by listening to From Care to Cure, season 1 episode 7 titled “Managing Symptoms: Communication.”

Learn more about the MGH FTD Unit’s PPA program at https://ftdboston.org/diagnosis/primary-progressive-aphasia/.

Learn more about AFTD’s resources for people living with PPAand FTD at https://www.theaftd.org/living-with-ftd/support-for-people-with-ftd/.

Learn more about aphasia from the National AphasiaAssociation at https://aphasia.org/.

The MGH FTD Unit clinical research program is committed toproviding the highest quality of care while we work tirelessly for a cure for FTD, atypical and young-onset forms of Alzheimer’s Disease and related neurological disorders. You can learn more about the MGH FTD Unit at ww.FTDBoston.org.

Amy Almeida is our producer.

From Care to Cure is made possible by generous contributions from donors to the MGH FTD Unit.  If you would like to support our work, visit www.FTDBoston.org/Donate. 

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