Frontotemporal dementia has received a lot of attention lately after actor Bruce Willis and talk show host Wendy Williams announced they have been diagnosed with the rare neurological disease.

The Alzheimer's Association in Kentucky says while rare, it is one of the most common drivers of dementia in people under 65.

Hear more now on the types of dementia symptoms and ways to keep your brain healthy in today's medical news.

Dementia is an umbrella term and so it is cause when an individual has issues with memory, thinking and reasoning.

And so it's not just one disease.

This can be caused by Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, which is also known as FTD.

FTD is when your frontal lobe and your temporal lobe are affected.

These parts of your brain help you rationalize, help with your emotions.

And so a lot of times there's behavior changes, there's personality changes, It affects your speech and oftentimes your mobility, too.

So early detection is important because you have more options in treatment and also gives you time to plan.

Some of those warning signs that a lot of people come to us as like, wow, if I get my keys sometimes, like, is that a warning sign?

Not necessarily.

There are different warning signs that if you can't retrace your steps, that is a warning sign if you do lose your keys.

If you can't go back and remember where you were at.

If you go in a in a room and you forget why you're there, everyone does that.

But if you keep going in and out of that room and cannot remember, that is a problem.

This is what dementia does.

It interferes with your daily life.

So if you're used to doing something that you're no longer able to do if you're not being social like you used to.

So there's a lot of misconceptions about behaviors, too, that come with Alzheimer's.

Like maybe you'll get angry, you're mean, but when you meet one person with Alzheimer's or dementia, you've met one person.

So every person, just like our brains, are different and there's different techniques and strategies to help that person live their best life and that they are still a person and they need to be treated with dignity.

With the Alzheimer's Association, we do provide education programs that help with some of those communication strategies.

Understanding the different behaviors.

Because as you progress through the disease with Alzheimer's or related dementias, your communication skills change, your behavior changes.

So Alzheimer's, typically, you know, it is our 65 and older is whenever you may start developing some cognition issues.

But there is something called the younger onset or early onset, and that can happen as early as your forties in your thirties.

So it's important to have the knowledge of what those ten warning signs are, what the disease is at the start of life, and it's never too late to have healthy habits.

We talk about what's healthy for your heart, is healthy for your brain, managing your diabetes, making sure that you have controlled blood pressure, getting sleep.

There's a lot of linkage between a cognitive decline in sleep and also challenging your brain, trying new things, doing crossword puzzles, protecting your brain.

Make sure you're wearing your helmet if you're biking, if there's any brain injuries that can increase your risk of certain types of dementia.