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Diana Buntajova & Mya Bollan

Symptoms of 'early' dementia - as expert shares six signs you need to visit a GP

Dementia is a devastating and hugely common health problem, with roughly 900,000 people across UK living with the condition.

And there are concerns that cases will triple worldwide by 2020, according to the World Health Organisation. Currently, Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia, but there are other conditions such as frontotemporal dementia.

To help identify the conditions and its risk factors, one expert has shared six "early" warning signs that could help sufferers get a diagnosis. It comes as Bruce Willis' frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis has seen an increase in the call for awareness of the less common symptoms for the rare dementia type, reports the Express.

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