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Associations and the Federation of Senior Centers and District Cartagena, in collaboration with the Department of Social Services, celebrated this morning the V Workshop on Alzheimer's and Dementia in the Elderly. In the town of Cartagena is 5700 the people with the disease, according to statistics of the European Union Dementias (EURODEM) that collects the A ssociation of Alzheimer Cartagena and Shire (AFAL), a group that has over two hundred members in our municipality.
The councilman of Social Care, Antonio Calderon and Maria Beteta Jimenez, president of the Federation of Associations and Centres for the Elderly, inaugurated the Workshop in the auditorium of the UNED, which has been assisted over 200 people, between members of the 43 biggest clubs in the municipality, and stakeholders coming from different parts of the region.
Many of them, explains Maria Beteta, v Iven about this disease because they have dependents affected by Alzheimer's.
The conference is to provide the necessary information over to deal with every day of the disease, and educate those who do not suffer on the importance of prevention, as noted by the Social Care Councillor.
The first paper, by the Cartagena AFAL president, Antonio López Rodríguez, dementia, Alzheimer type Is there hope?, Provides not lose hope is the first step for both the individuals concerned relatives fight against Alzheimer's.
The talks also focused on non-drug treatments to combat the neurodegenerative disease that affects brain cells, and against which to this day, there is no definitive treatment to cure it or prevent it.
It has also benefited from the intervention of the psychologist in charge of the rehabilitation area of ​​the association APIC, Begoña Arnaldos Arias, who explained the psychological care they should receive the Alzheimer patients.
The third paper has benefited from the interventions and Sonia Ardil Galloso Nayra, neuropsychologists and Maria Dolores Conesa, social worker Alzeheimer Association of Cartagena.
Alzheimer's affects 7% of people over 65 years, age is often crucial to manifest the disease.
About 650,000 people in Spain suffer and manifest more than 100,000 new patients per year.
It is the cause of disability, dependence and mortality more common in the elderly.
Given the aging population and the future increase in people over 80 years, it is expected that the number of patients to double by 2020 and triple by 2050.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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