Overview
- Andre Yarham died on December 27, 2025, in hospice care after a hospital-treated infection led to a rapid deterioration.
- Diagnosed a month before his 23rd birthday, he had frontotemporal dementia caused by a protein mutation.
- An MRI in 2023 led clinicians to say his brain resembled that of a 70-year-old despite his early 20s.
- His condition advanced quickly in 2025, prompting a move to a nursing home in September and subsequent end-of-life care.
- His mother says the family donated his brain for research, reported to Addenbrooke's in Cambridge, and urged greater awareness of early-onset dementia that affects about one in 20 dementia cases, with only around 0.1% diagnosed under 65.