My Mother has Alzheimer's Disease-Part 2
Episode Number:
024
Show:
Woman Wisdom 
September 21st , 2011 is International Alzheimers Day.
What better time to shine a Light of this Global Phenomenon?
Some facts about Dementia
- *An estimated 269,000 Australians currently live with dementia
- *Without a significant medical breakthrough, that is expected to soar to about 981,000 by 2050
- *Each week, there are 1500 new cases of dementia in Australia. That is expected to grow to 7,400 new diagnoses each week by 2050
- *One in four people over the age of 85 have dementia
- *Dementia has been diagnosed in people in their 50’s, 40’s and even in their 30’s.The latest figures show that younger onset dementia affects approximately 16,000 Australians.
Briefly let’s widen that view and see it from a global perspective
*As of 2010, there are an estimated 35.6 million people with dementia worldwide.
*By 2050, it is projected that this figure will have increased to over 115 million. Much of the increase will be in developing countries.
*Already 58% of people with dementia live in developing countries, but by 2050 this will rise to 71%.
*The fastest growth in the elderly population is taking place in China, India, and their south Asian and western Pacific neighbors.
Communication
Rather Looking for Lionel is all about communication. Imagining how it is to stand in the shoes of another person. That kind of communication if we all did it would see the end of war, the end of poverty and end of suffering. Because that way of communication opens our world from my opinion, my beliefs, my struggle to seeing a bigger story.than trying to bring someone with Dementia back into our reality we need to learn how to step into their reality. In this way we can develop empathy, trust and security. Looking for Lionel - How I lost and found my mother through dementia, offers many ways of doing this successfully.
What can we learn from Dementia?
Dementia holds up a mirror and reflects back to us our own fears and inadequacies. No one wants to feel inadequate and the truth is that most of us don’t know how to relate to a loved one who is no longer the person they used to be. Looking for Lionel points us in the right direction
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