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The disease of Alzheimer
Described by Aloïs ALZHEIMER in 1906 in Tubingen (Germany), this disease is related to a degeneration of certain nervous cells of the brain. It is about disease of a progressive and irreversible evolution of still unexplained origin. The disease, while worsening, create difficulties of language, of the gestures, comprehension, the recognition of the known people and gene gradually acts of the everyday life.
gradual disappearance
of all intellectual then physical faculties
total
physical
and psychic dependence
400 000 patients of which 10 % have less than 60 years,
this number risk to double until 2020
60 to 70 000 new cases in one year
Vocation of a Daytime Reception Center
Without any real curative treatment today, the Alzheimer disease poses a true problem of public health, as well on the human level as financial, allowing today hardly other choice but the maintenance of the patient at home, plunging the family in social and psychological loneliness, or the placement in specialized institutions, expensive and source, always for the family, of a feeling of impotence and culpability.
In front of this report, the Daytime Reception Center seems a true alternative: it makes it possible to receive the patients in a protected place and brings assistance and relief to the families.
The Lions of France decided, in June 2000 to give an impulse particular to the development of these establishments by choosing Lions Alzheimer like National Action over the period 2000/2003.
11000 €uros given
with this intention at the conclusion of the 1st and second international
decorated egg show
by the Clubs of Amboise "the Two Valleys" and Tours "City
of Arts".
37 daytime reception centers open in France thanks to
the action of the International Lions Clubs.
160 projects still studying.