Gain a unique insight into dementia through the stories, symptoms and science behind four less common diagnoses.

Dementia is one of the foremost priorities in global health and is estimated to affect over 44 million people worldwide. This has a huge impact on individuals and on society, so improvements in understanding, care and treatments are desperately needed. In this online course, you’ll discover key issues in dementia care and research. You’ll explore four less common forms of dementia, through the eyes of people affected by them. World-leading experts at UCL will show how research into the signs, stages, symptoms and causes of these forms can bring us closer to defeating dementia.

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What topics are covered?

This course covered four less common diagnoses of dementia, the people involved and the implications of these for our wider understanding. Core topics included:

• the symptoms and science behind familial Alzheimer’s disease
• behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia
• dementia with Lewy bodies and posterior cortical atrophy.

Learners can explore and discuss the changes in the brain underlying these conditions plus how support and care can help people live well with dementia.