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Stop trying to cure Alzheimer's – and prevent it instead
One of Britain’s top dementia experts says we’ve wasted BILLIONS on useless drugs
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Danger zone: The brown areas of this brain show Alzheimer’s
We’ve been waiting for a breakthrough drug treatment for Alzheimer’s for decades.
An astonishing £25 billion has been spent worldwide on trying to develop one, and yet we still don’t have anything that can slow down, let alone stop, the disease.
It’s true that drugs such as Aricept may help some patients with their symptoms, but only for a short while.
That leaves patients and their families in the hopeless position of waiting for the drug companies to discover a treatment.
What’s so cruel is that no one has ever made it clear to them that it doesn’t have to be like that.
There are other options.
There are things that can be done to improve the situation right now — but governments, charities and other research bodies need to make a long overdue switch to a new strategy: preventing the disease.
What is amazing is that nearly all that £25 billion has been spent researching and testing ways to stop just one thing that goes wrong in patients’ brains.
Norfolk & Suffolk Dementia Alliance launches “Let’s Talk” with Toolwire’s Experiential Learning solution
New Interactive tools to bridge the communication gap between people with Dementia and their professional carers or family
RealWire
2013-12-06
Pleasanton, CA and London, UK – Friday 6th December 2013 – Toolwire today announced that Norfolk and Suffolk Dementia Alliance has launched a new range of online Learning tools to help users develop essential skills in communicating with people living with Dementia. The series of digital media simulations called “Let’s Talk” provides professional carers and family or friends to immerse themselves in real life situations and to see first-hand the results of their decisions or actions.
Let’s Talk provides emotional context to the textual or factual information about Dementia. It addresses issues such as using the correct body language, how to position yourself when speaking to someone with Dementia and how best to communicate to determine a more positive outcome with every day activities. The tool is accessible for free through The Learning Location website which is open to individual carers, families, professional staff and organisations looking for relevant information, guides and training support.
Warning that carers are at breaking point
Warning that carers are at breaking point
The Older People’s Commissioner for Wales has said that some carers are at breaking point because of the stress of having to look after their loved ones with very little assistance from outside organisations. Sarah Rochira told the BBC that this vital work is often overlooked, even though it can have a major impact on people’s physical and mental health.
She said that carers provide as much as £6 billion a year in savings to healthcare authorities, but many feel as though they do not matter.
