The progressive disease, which begins with a slight loss of memory and can lead to a loss of bearings, both in speech and in space, develops over time and worsens. Nevertheless, we know the warning signs that can help predict this degeneration.
A growing disease
They would be no less than 5.8 million Americans and 1 million French people suffering from memory disease, Alzheimer.
As a reminder, 8% of people who suffer from this disease in France are over 65 years old. In the figures described by “Beating Alzheimer’s”it is also estimated that 225,000 new cases are detected every year. People affected by this constant disorder can also be in their thirties, even if the cases are rarer.
Cinematographic achievements have seized the disease of oblivion several times under the artistic prism, like the film released in 2004 “Never forget” Where “The Note Book” from Nick Cassavetesin English, which deals with Alzheimer’s disease in a couple, throughout life. Memory leaves, then sometimes comes back, which frightens the actress as she grows older.
How to recognize the first symptoms?
Early symptoms may be vague and differ depending on the person. It is then the relatives, those who know the patient best, who realize that something has changed. It may be behavior or way of thinking, but progressive mental retardation is the tangent the most difficult to accept.
Consciousness is altered, we more or less knew it, but many patients with Alzheimer’s are reluctant to believe that they are victims of it and know often a phase of denial.
The association “Together once morest oblivion” fights once morest the degeneration of the disease and is sponsored by actor Thierry Lhermitte.
