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It's a hard pill to swallow when you communicate to one that a family member with Alzheimer's.
It is easy to assume it and adapt to the changes that are coming, but yet still more than others discover they have it.
And is that rare diseases are still a taboo to be faced today.
Sonia explains Galloso, a psychologist specializing in Clinical Neuropsychology Alzheimer's Association in Cartagena.
Throughout his professional experience, he has seen families struggle to admit the existence of this disease to others. They do not like others to know that my grandfather or my dad have a mental illness, he says.
It is what teaches them this month to the students of the training for the care of people suffering from Alzheimer's disease, bedridden or in a situation of dependency, organized by the Department of Women.
From 13 January to 7 February, twenty women are taught to take the place of the patient and overcome those fears.
A class attend both working with such patients as those with a loved one suffer the agony of this situation.
Rosi is the case, who has registered for this activity to learn how to route the sick and give warmth through love.
The patient is not a closet to be washed, dressing or feeding, it is more than that, we should not forget that above all is a person, the psychologist clarified.
These dependent patients need the love of both the caregiver and the family to attend as it is a key to block the disease in the case of Alzheimer's.
Although you can not eliminate, yes you can prevent that develops more rápido.Otros of factors that have to take into account the loved ones is medication and non-drug therapies such as rehabilitation.
Sonia Galloso also gives us the steps to follow when we discovered that one of our immediate environment suffers from Alzheimer's to learn about this disease, so that it does not tell you the doctor, go to associations for help and ask questions, and take our family is sick and that nothing happens by the fact that it is mental type.
Not only do patients suffer. Caregivers do too silent.
It manifests itself in a gradual deterioration to be developed over the years and causes depression and stress in many cases.
The essential thing is to learn to take care of oneself, to separate the duties of sick and ours and learn to love more. Affects Think that until the patient himself, the expert concludes.
This ongoing care of Alzheimer joins others already organized the Department of Women, although it emphasizes the mayor as itself, Clara Hall, focuses on this particular field because now the future is specialization.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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