Friday, January 9, 2009

What is Alzheimer's? You can heal?



It is a degenerative brain that causes a progressive decline and global intellectual functions ... difficult words that resonate with the clang of an avalanche in the head and the heart of the family.
We are told that is not curable, that the course lasts about ten years, the last stage of the disease the person has the same cognitive faculties of a child for a few weeks ... The hope, after the diagnosis, leaving the way to despair.
Now began the knowledge that the person who loves you will sbiadendo a little at a time ... E 'unjust, unacceptable ... "

The disease of Alzheimer's strikes "physically" but one person wounded many others, first of all the family that takes care of ... then the operator will take the patient to some structure.
When we speak we speak of Alzheimer disease (from a clinical point of view), but little is still talking about those people forced to stop, to think to support the heavy load of care problems.

Studies conducted on the English reality show that almost 90% of dementia are assisted by family, on whose shoulders lies the burden of care entirely, but without adequate support from society. The demented person is mostly assisted at home and when the load becomes unsustainable welfare institutionalization of older becomes a choice almost compulsory. The House of Rest is thus a need to accommodate a senior in an advanced stage of dementia, with family members stressed and caught by feelings of guilt for having surrendered. From the perspective of the person with dementia, be included in a new environment and face unknown people and not emotionally significant leads in most cases a worsening of the disorder.

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  1. http://www.accessdna.com/condition/Alzheimer_s_Disease/31

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