By: Gustavo Cardoso Subieta
With the enactment of the 4034 Building Support Centers Alzheimer and other dementias, last May, the proposal emerged from Bolivia Alzheimer's Association - ABA, an organization that unites families, patients, professionals health workers and volunteers, the country became the first Latin American to have achieved a legal instrument also be unprecedented discussion in the context of the legislative chambers.
However, this does not mean that Bolivia has been likened to the progress of other countries, on the contrary, experience shows that we have high levels of disinformation, not There are no campaigns are sustained communication, there is no scientific studies or academic explicit, and we belatedly (20 years) with an institution of civil society such as the ABA, in Alzheimer's Disease International - ADI, which brings together more than 70 countries and an equal number of representations.
In any case, the first time have formed a national group whose public call was answered superlatively showed major shortcomings, above all, families live, usually with an evil that respects no social class, cultural conditions political, or economic.
Alzheimer's is a disease that is characterized by neurodegenerative case of one of the most common dementias of man is as yet incurable, and whose analogy in the country is linked to the "senility", without considering a particular disease. In their progress, which can take several years until the death of the patient, really radically change the family environment, forcing increasingly deep changes and the search for solutions to the loss of memory, language and even the loved body activity .
Forces, to one or some of the family members become caregivers, postponing much of their projected social, cultural, economic and professional appearance, which carries with it depression and risk situations of permanent and high costs.
In this scenario, the tasks undertaken in Bolivia since the civil society, not only through the inclusion of public policy issues, but to put in the public arena this issue that should be motivating, first of all ensure that our seniors through early diagnosis, consisting of assessments of memory, scans or other medical tests, to better address the disease, and therefore the sooner we know the risks and opportunities, the better we caring for those deserve it. AAB
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