2024-07-17 05:00:11
The engineer had difficulty in the meeting, where he had to take notes and absorb the information being exchanged. There were also times when the teacher felt that “get lost” In class, forgetting regarding his lessons. What should he say? Finally, the employee was troubled as he wandered the company hallways, unable to remember why he had just left the office.
Behind these different situations encountered in professional settings, there is the same cause: Alzheimer’s disease. If the disease mainly affects retired people, there are now tens of thousands of cases in France involving people under 65 years old. These “young Alzheimer’s patients,” a large proportion of whom are unaware of their disease due to a lack of diagnosis, must face progressive cognitive deterioration at work. As a result, there was a lot of suffering.
“There are as many Alzheimer’s diseases as there are patients”, experts usually say. In fact, the disease appears in many ways in the daily lives of those affected. “Of course, memory problems are common, Adeline Rollin, director of the National Reference Center for Young People with Alzheimer’s Disease in Lille, explains. Patients have difficulty forming new memories. But atypical forms are also common in young people: speech and gesture difficulties, visual difficulties such as finding your way in space. Executive functions may also be affected, making it difficult to organize or plan. »
source of tension
So many symptoms make daily professional life complicated and even impossible to complete certain tasks. “Sometimes this can also increase the risk of incidents, putting patients and their colleagues at risk””, pointed out Benoît Durand, deputy director of the French Alzheimer’s Association. “One of my patients played an important role in the internal security process, A professional doctor explains. Due to his negligence, the process was disrupted. Things were getting dangerous, so he was relieved of the mission. »
Faced with an increasing inability to complete certain tasks, employees find themselves in a position of failure and may lose self-confidence. A painful feeling that sometimes comes with not understanding. Diagnosis is often not made until several years following the onset of the disease. Previously, those affected had seen some of their abilities diminished as a result, without any real explanation. “Patients who contact us often call in sick initially because of depression or burnout””, Ms. Rolling pointed out.
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