with the World Alzheimer''s Day with a workshop and an awareness campaign
Prince Muhammad Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, represented by the Department of Medical Social Service in Home Health Care, in cooperation with the Alzheimer''s Association in Riyadh, yesterday, organized a workshop entitled "How to take care of the Alzheimer''s patient and psychosocial support for the families of Alzheimer''s patients" in conjunction with the World Alzheimer''s Day at the hospital''s headquarters in Riyadh in Within the framework of the awareness programs implemented by the hospital to coincide with this anniversary.
The head of the medical social service department in home health care at the hospital, Amani Bint Fahad Al-Dossary, explained that this workshop comes under the patronage of Suad, Executive Director of Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Dr. Muhammad bin Nasser Al-Oumi, and with the participation of a number of specialists and specialists in the field of caring for Alzheimer''s patients, noting that the workshop is preparing This is the start of an awareness campaign that the hospital will present through field visits to the homes of patients'' families on Sunday and Monday next week.
Al-Dossary indicated that the workshop that was carried out today had a remarkable attendance and participation of a number of specialists, as it opened a lecture by the health education specialist at the Alzheimer''s Association, Professor Jane Abdullah Amer, during which she shed light on an introductory overview of the services provided by the association to patients and their families.
She stated that the workshop was concluded with a lecture on psychological and social support for Alzheimer''s patients, during which she showed effective methods and useful methods in this regard, offering thanks to all participants in the activities of the workshop, asking God Almighty to bless patients with a speedy recovery and to perpetuate the kingdom''s glory, prosperity and stability.
It is worth noting that the world celebrates the International Day of Alzheimer''s Disease on September 21 of each year, and it aims to increase awareness of the disease and seek to mitigate its social effects.
The disease took its name from the German doctor (Alois Alzheimer) who described it in 1906 AD, after he noticed anatomical changes in the brain of a woman who died of an unusual mental illness.
And the celebration of this day began in Washington, USA, in 1984, when a group of experts on Alzheimer''s disease presented a vision whose goal was: (A better life for people with dementia and their families), and since that time this vision has not changed.
