World Alzheimer's Day, hospitals hold clinics to focus on old age health

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South All news reporter Li Zucheng every September 21 is "the World senile Dementia Day", the South all reporter from the district first People's Hospital learned that at present the public generally has limited understanding to the senile dementia disease, the Shunde patient has the low attendance rate, the treatment rate lowly question. To promote the treatment and knowledge of the disease, the hospital opened a "Memory barrier clinic" This year, and this year's World Dementia Day will also hold a free clinic on September 23.

Doctor: There are at least two thousand or three thousand people in Shunde

According to Ouyangki Peng, an attending physician at the first People's Hospital in the district, the global dementia patients reached 35.6 million in 2010, 5.4 million of them in China, and the global number is expected to double every 20. According to this ratio, there are now at least two thousand or three thousand people in Shunde. According to him, Alzheimer's disease is the same as the "Frozen Syndrome", which has caused widespread concern in recent years, all belong to the nervous system degeneration disease, also is in the clinical relatively rare disease, "this disease is even worse, because the patient to the family, the society's negative influence to be much bigger, the late May accompany the mental symptom, appears the illusion, is always noisy , striking shout kill. ”

However, there is a general acceptance of the society at present is not high. Ouyangki Peng, Alzheimer's disease in the early performance is mainly memory disorders, patients do not remember the words and deeds, most of the family may feel that the reason is old, not disease, wait until the hospital to see is late, treatment effect will be much worse. According to him, in the previous few years, every month to the section of the diagnosis or diagnosis of dementia patients up to five or six people, "most patients are at home, to find a nanny, even to eat, drink, let it fend for themselves." ”

Initiative: Establishment of "Memory Disorders Clinic"

This February, the district's first People's Hospital neurology Department of Alzheimer's Disease professional added "Memory Disorders Clinic", and set up an Alzheimer's education classroom, to provide patients with more professional treatment and promote a comprehensive understanding of the disease, Ouyangki Peng is the main responsible for this work. According to his introduction, the outpatient department will also put the patient's data into the database. According to him, after the opening of the clinic, the current monthly diagnosis or diagnosis of patients have reached more than 20 people, and is still in an upward trend. It is said that the sooner the disease is cured, the easier it is to cure it.

South all reporters learned that in 2012, in order to promote the Shunde of the public to Alzheimer's acceptance, Foshan Care Alzheimer's Association began in Shunde district to promote a series of promotional activities, including in Francis and other communities to open lectures, in the Chen Cun nursing staff training, etc. Compared with Shancheng, Shunde's acceptance of Alzheimer's disease is much worse, one is that many families do not understand, the second is even if you know the disease, also sent to the hospital far away, feel a sense of shame. "Its head Li Zhimei introduced.

[Small knowledge]

What is "Alzheimer's disease"?

Dementia, also known as Alzheimer's disease, is clinically characterized by memory impairment, aphasia, loss of use, loss of recognition, visual impairment of space skills, executive dysfunction, and personality and behavioral changes, and the etiology of dementia has not yet been identified. 65 years old before the onset, said Alzheimer's dementia, 65 years after the onset of Alzheimer's disease.