The 2008-2012 Alzheimer’s Plan essentially results today in the creation of new organizations, the definition of specifications and the launch of calls for tenders, estimated Arlette Meyrieux, president of the France-Alzheimer association. . “This preliminary step is necessary, but for sick people and families, the concrete benefits in daily life are slow to come”.
The Alzheimer’s Association, an approved organization for more than 20 years, intends to form pairs of volunteers and psychologists who will provide training for family caregivers.
Arlette Meyrieux underlined the impatience of the actors in the field and the exhaustion of the caregivers. Temporary accommodation must be created quickly according to her, to relieve caregivers accompanying patients affected by Alzheimer’s.
According to her, all people should be able to benefit from permanent accommodation structures, and not just people with behavioral problems.
Finally, the president of the association spoke of the Association’s attachment to the creation of regional meetings of the Plan, with the participation of some 106 departmental associations of France Alzheimer.
France Alzheimer, the only national association recognized as being of public utility in the field of this disease, has 150,000 members and donors in France.