“Caring for those who care”: this is the heart of the book “Alzheimer’s Planet on the side of those who care” – The manual for everyday life, seen from the eyes of those who take care of their relatives afflicted by senile dementia, presented in L’Aquila at the Hemicycle.
A stimulating, awareness-raising meeting, at the center of which is a book created to address and expose the emotional implications caused by Alzheimer’s in those who provide assistance. The meeting was promoted byTogether for Alzheimer’s Associationprovince of L’Aquila, ODV-ETS together with Corecom Abruzzo, always attentive to the most fragile groups of society, those same groups who increasingly become victims of online scams and fraud.
They participated in the presentation, moderated by the journalist Roberta Galeotti: Raffaele Danielevice mayor of L’Aquila, the professor Carmine Marinihead of the Neurology Stroke Unit of San Salvatore for many years, the professor Rocco Totaro, head of the Demyelinating Diseases Center, Dr Patrizia Sucapanehead of the Center for Cognitive Disorders and Dementia (CDCD), the doctors Daniela Fiorenzi And Roberta Bernardi of the Creatively clinical center.
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The carer is the “hidden victim” of the disease that every care program must take into accountor. Dementia is a disease that involves the whole family both in terms of care commitment and emotional and relational aspects. Managing a person with Alzheimer’s disease requires great adaptability to contingent situations and the new needs of the patient due to the inevitable progression of the pathology.
The doctors participated in the creation of the volume Roberta Bernardi, Daniela Fiorenzai, Alessandra Cavicchio, Tommasina Russo, Patrizia Sucapane and the illustrator Alessia Antonini.
Alzheimer’s Planet, a book from the side of those who care
