I treated a judge for forty years who had fronto-temporal dementia.

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3. It is sad, but we as a society have to do better at finding solutions to those who become progressively more violent

with this and other forms of dementia. With Medicaid cuts fewer and fewer can be placed in appropriate long term care facilities (assuming any are staffed with trained people to handle them--dementia care centers not unexpectedly cater to the highly insured or wealthy patients). So these combined problems mean some of them may end up becoming violent with spouse or other family or homeless and violent on the street.

There is likewise a wrong assumption--especially prevalent among family members--that these patients can be medicated successfully to prevent the progressive lack of control and violence that IN SOME manifests. Well, maybe. But not always especially with structural progressive brain disease like FTD.

Our society is rapidly becoming a failed one for our people and communities. Can it be turned around? Maybe.