Spencer Cline AFTD Volunteer Ambassador The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD)
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Spencer Cline as guest to the show.
About Spencer Cline:
Spencer Cline became familiar with FTD at a very young age, as his father started exhibiting behavioral changes shortly after he was born. His dad was diagnosed with bvFTD when Spencer was seven years old, then was diagnosed with the C9orf72 genetic variant, which is linked to both FTD and ALS.
After watching his dad fight the disease until he passed in 2012, Spencer developed a passion for spreading awareness in hopes to find a cure – a passion that has only grown with time.
Spencer has organized multiple fundraising/awareness events with the Babson College men's basketball team, biked across the U.S. in support of FTD in 2024, helped get resolution passed in Georgia recognizing September 21st -27th as FTD Awareness week in the state and was Keynote Speaker at AFTD's 2025 Hope Rising Benefit. He also serves as an AFTD Ambassador.
About The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD):
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) is the leading nonprofit devoted to helping families affected by frontotemporal degeneration today while driving research that supports accurate diagnosis, treatments, and ultimately a cure.
AFTD's mission is centered on improving quality of life for everyone impacted by FTD, and it advances that mission through five core pillars: research, awareness, support, education, and advocacy. In practice, that means funding and promoting research, expanding public and professional understanding of FTD, and pushing for the services and policies families need.
For individuals and families, AFTD provides direct support through resources and its HelpLine, which is staffed by social workers who can answer questions, offer guidance after a new diagnosis, and connect people to relevant services and community support.
AFTD is volunteer founded and community powered, and it has grown into a widely recognized expert organization in FTD and young onset dementia, partnering with researchers, clinicians, advocates, and families to accelerate progress and expand access to high quality care and support.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to all home care matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions |
| 0:06.7 | on important age-related matters and topics. Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
| 0:13.3 | the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.7 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:30.3 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.2 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode |
| 0:36.4 | here at All Home Care Matters, something that will hopefully matter try and make each episode here at all home care matters, |
| 0:38.3 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome a remarkable guest, |
| 0:43.8 | Spencer Klein. Spencer is a volunteer ambassador for the AFTD. Welcome, Spencer. How are you? Good. Thank you for |
| 0:53.3 | having me. Yes, our pleasure. You know, I just want to start off right off the bat here with explaining to our viewers and listeners who may not be familiar with what AFTD is. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, so AFTD is the Association for Frontor-Tipal Degeneration. So they help support families impacted by FTD as well spearhead initiatives for |
| 1:14.4 | research in order to find a cure. And, you know, oftentimes, Spencer, you know, with my line of |
| 1:20.9 | work with our home care company, somebody will say at least once a month, my dad has dementia, |
| 1:27.2 | he doesn't have Alzheimer's. |
| 1:28.4 | And then, you know, we kind of explained to him, well, your dad can have dementia and not |
| 1:33.3 | have Alzheimer's, but he can't have Alzheimer's, but not have dementia. |
| 1:37.2 | What do people often get wrong about AFTD? |
| 1:41.6 | Yeah, so FTT is one of the earliest forms of dementia for people under the age of 60. |
| 1:48.6 | And so I feel like when people hear dementia, they think it only impacts old people and just causes memory loss. |
| 1:54.7 | But with FTT, it commonly shows up in behavioral changes. |
| 1:59.9 | It can happen, you know, as early as 21 and most commonly |
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