Awareness Space #2: Alzheimer's Disease 🚩
You are invited to our new prevention debate:
Each year, more than fifty elderly people die with Alzheimer's disease in Spain, they go out for a walk, become disoriented and suffer a blow or fall. [1]
Due to the aging and wear of the neurons, all people over 65 have a risk of suffering Alzheimer's disease, a neurodegenerative condition, which totally changes the life of those who endure it and their family members. In addition, it has become a civil problem because, every year, more cases of disappearances of elderly people who due to this unfortunate disease lose their way home, continue being reported to the police entities.
So, in order to follow this debate, you have to comment this post with you opinion about it. The main topic will be Prevention of Risks due to Alzheimer's Disease.
Choose one or more questions of the list below and participate!
Syllabus:
- What is Alzheimer's disease?
- What are the symptoms and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease?
- Which specialist should a person go to confirm this disease?
- Do you think there is a way to prevent Alzheimer's disease, which one?
- In cases of emergency, what to do with people who have Alzheimer's disease?
- What are the prevention and risk actions for families that have a member with Alzheimer's disease who tend to run away from home?
Contribute and you will be rewarded, how will it be?:
- Make a comment on this publication, answering any of the questions raised in the agenda.
- You can make a post, where you develop one of the proposed topics or questions, and then leave us in the comments the link to your publication.
- You can also contribute and give some added value, if you comment or publish any personal experience related to Alzheimer's disease, it has to be of an instructive nature, even some poetry or literature writings inspired by this proposed topic could be taken into account.
- You can also tell us what your community is doing in terms of risk prevention against Alzheimer's disease.
Each post and comment related to the proposed theme will be rewarded in WLS.