Today is the 23rd World Alzheimer’s Day. Patients, relatives, caregivers, researchers and health professionals mobilize to inform, raise awareness and debate. This year, the day revolves around caregivers in professional activity.
On this occasion, many events take place throughout France: conferences, sporting or cultural meetings, information stands. In Paris, the Alzheimer Village occupies the Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad until this evening.
No treatment yet
According to the Ministry of Health, this neurodegenerative disease affects 850,000 people in France, with 600 new cases diagnosed every day. However, no treatment currently manages to stop the evolution of the symptoms. The best known is of course the progressive loss of memory, but it can also be language disorders, loss of recognition of objects and people, and difficulty in finding one’s bearings in space and time.
Between fiction and reality
On the occasion of this day, France 2 offers a Continuous Evening. On the menu, the TV movie “Life upside down” at 8:55 p.m. features three sisters who try to manage the daily life of their mother suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. This fiction will be followed by a debate centered on the fight of the families and moderated by the journalist Julian Bugier. Patients, relatives and specialists will discuss on set the diagnosis, the interest of drugs, research or even the “Neurodegenerative diseases” plan put in place by the government in 2014. The evening will end at 1:05 a.m. with a short -film titled “The Age of Unreason”.
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