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On Wednesday, December 15, 2010, an episode of the program talked about Alzheimer''s disease, the beginnings of establishing the Alzheimer''s Association in the Kingdom, the services provided by the association to patients, and how the association’s advisory board was formed. The workshop also dealt with the efforts made by the association in serving these patients, especially at the level of educating groups of doctors and specialists about how to diagnose an Alzheimer''s patient. The seminar also raised a question about the purpose of the association as long as the disease is not cured.
The episode also received contact with the families of some Alzheimer''s patients, explaining their experience with the patient, the first stages at which they discovered that he had Alzheimer''s, the things that hurt him the most and how to contain it.
Princess Madawi bint Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Alzheimer''s Disease Society and Chair of the Executive Committee, explained The association believes in the importance of reviewing its plans, especially by prominent specialists in the field of the association’s work, whether from within or from outside its framework, and then the idea of forming an advisory board for the association was formed.
She added that the advisory board supervises the membership of a number of foreign members and specialists, in addition to ed prominent personalities from senior officials and members of the association’s strategic partnership program, in addition to a number of different community figures, noting that the members of the association’s council will be announced soon.
She explained that the association has a partnership program Where she worked on several partnerships with different sectors Among them are King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Security Forces Hospital, stressing the importance of the hospitals ’role. It not only opens clinics, but also supports the association through the association''s programs Among them is awareness and education as well.
As for Dr. Abdulaziz bin Ali Al-Majooshi, General Supervisor of the founding stage of the Saudi Charitable Society for Alzheimer''s Disease He talked about the founding of the association by a group of philanthropists interested in this disease, as well as some specialized doctors, in addition to a number of public figures. On their head is Princess Madawi, who adopted the idea, and she is in the status of the spiritual mother of this association.
He added that all of these people held more than one meeting at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, then submitted a request for incorporation to the Ministry of Social Affairs, and the ministry agreed, so the association began its first work through its inauguration by Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Minister of Interior, who agreed to be Honorary president of this society, and then the society held its first meeting to inaugurate it in mid-1430 AH.
As a result of this gathering, the 11 members of the Board of Directors were ed They are presented by Prince Saud bin Khalid bin Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Princess Madawi bint Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman as Vice President and Chair of the Executive Committee, in addition to a number of interested and specialists.
As for the structural construction, the association worked to benefit from a distinguished company in the field of consulting and building expertise She voluntarily offered her support to the association in its early days, and wanted the association to start from where others ended up on the global level.
On Alzheimer''s disease, Dr. Najib Shafa’a Al-Qadi, a consultant in neurosciences, cognition and behavior at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and head of the scientific medical committee at the Alzheimer''s Association, explained: It is a disease that affects brain functions, especially cognitive and behavioral, and unfortunately the condition worsens over time.
The judge added that Alzheimer''s does not have a specific age, and it is possible for a person to strike at any age, but most often a person suffers from it after the age of 65, but infection with it at an early age has genetic causes, and the incidence of those who reach 65 years of age reaches 2 %, And every 5 years this percentage doubles So that the proportion of those affected by the age of 85 to 50%.
He pointed out that Alzheimer''s is one of the most important causes of "dementia", a disease known in the world since 1906, since it was discovered by the German scientist Louis Zheimer.
He explained that Alzheimer''s has both cognitive and behavioral symptoms. In the beginning, the disease is accompanied by poor memory in a frequent way, disorientation and inability to make decisions and act, in addition to isolation.
