Awareness and cognitive rehabilitation in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

Introduction: Awareness influences the evolution of neurodegenerative dementias. We gathered participants' and caregivers assessments of dependence in daily activities and we studied how each score would be related to next year participant autonomy, independently of other explicative variables.

Method: We retrospectively analyzed data from mildly demented participants with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD, = 186) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD, = 29) and their relatives.