Frontotemporal dementia cases often missed — Lasse was misdiagnosed

Cases of frontotemporal dementia often get missed by Sweden's healthcare system.

One of those who's experienced this is artist Lasse Larsson, who was initially misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and suffered bad side-effects from the medication prescribed to him.

"It doesn't matter, they're going to die anyway. That's the feeling you get as a relative," says Lasse's wife Marie-Louise Wallén Larsson. ...