World Alzheimer's Day, let the yellow hand ring record old people's information to protect the safety of the elderly

At the clinic, the medical staff issued the yellow bracelet to the needy elderly, which was first issued in our Province hospital. Yellow Bracelet records The information of the elderly, and when the elderly need help, other people can contact their families through the information in the yellow hand ring. This reporter Lu Xiao Juan photographed

September 21 is the 20th "World Alzheimer's Day", organized by the Science Association of Guizhou province on Alzheimer's clinics and free lectures 19th in Jinyang Hospital. The site for free blood pressure, check blood sugar, blood lipids, memory table screening, expert on-site consultation, answer questions, and give the patient yellow hand ring, memory card. It is reported that the Guiyang second People's Hospital has opened a memory clinic, focusing on memory impairment of the elderly consultation, diagnosis and treatment.

The theme of this year's World Alzheimer's Day is to "focus on the old fool around". With the advent of an aging society, it is expected that by 2015, our country aged 60 and above will reach 202 million. The incidence of Alzheimer's disease has risen markedly, becoming the fourth largest killer of human beings after cardiovascular, cancer and stroke. Data show that China's Alzheimer's disease has reached more than 9 million people, and is increasing every 20 years.

During the 1 hours of the clinic, the initial screening for Alzheimer's disease was 10:1, and the population was younger. "In general, dementia is more than 65 years old, but now there are a lot of more than 50-year-old people have begun to become ill." "The risk of disease increases with age," said Game, chief physician of neurology at Guiyang's second people's Hospital. At present, Alzheimer's disease has the problem of "one high three low", that is, the prevalence rate is low, the diagnosis accuracy is low, the treatment rate is low. Many people still have "old fool is normal", not the wrong idea of disease, or think "senile dementia no cure". Data show that Chinese patients with mild dementia rate of 14%, moderate dementia patients with 25%, severe dementia patients with less than 34%.

"Some patients cannot distinguish between things and sometimes ignite at home, causing loss to the family or society," he said. "Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder in which the brain's memory decay will become irreversible," Game said. To determine if there are some simple indicators of Alzheimer's disease, in the cognitive aspect, such as most patients can not go shopping to buy food, dare not cook, do not know people, if these symptoms are moderate or above. Serious dementia symptom shows, life cannot take care of oneself, go wrong house, forget turn off faucet, need someone to look after, otherwise very dangerous. Again serious is to appear mental symptom, the meal that eats today also forgot. "Will say that the family steal things, children abused, runaway and so on." "Early intervention in the disease could slow down memory decay," Game said.

The causes of Alzheimer's disease are complex, with genetic factors, as well as the environment, age, cardiovascular diseases and other diseases. Because of the low cognitive level of dementia and the secrecy of its early symptoms, the rate of missed diagnosis in dementia patients is higher, and almost half of dementia is missed. Game, dementia Symptoms can appear some depression, anxiety on emotional problems, will be diagnosed with depression or anxiety disorder. In fact, emotional problems are also an important factor in distinguishing between memory loss and mild cognitive impairment in dementia, and "half of the memory declines are not emotionally expressive, and mild cognitive impairment can have emotional manifestations of depression and anxiety." ”

Although can not be cured, but early detection of timely diagnosis and treatment, to improve and delay the disease can play a key role. Game said, Alzheimer's disease in the early traces can follow, there are memory loss, mental decline, personality changes, daily life ability decline, behavior strange, such as 5 of precursor symptoms. For example, it is easy to forget what has just happened, even reminders can not remember, go out easy to get lost, do not remember the name of the familiar person, do not calculate income and expenditure; These are typical symptoms.