“38% Of the diagnoses of Alzheimer in older people are wrong, confusing them with dementia”

Conference: ‘ memory stimulation does not have age ’

-38% of misdiagnosis in which this disease is confused are really mixed dementia, dementia vascular or even dementia dietary supplements that are perfectly treatable.

-A myth to banish: changes in memory in older people do not occur due to lateness of their age.
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– disorders that may experience memory also be due to psychological reasons, such as an emotional impact, stress, depression, anxiety, etc.

-memory loss begins to manifest itself by the difficulty of remembering data relatively little important.

Bilbao, March 2012.- 38% of the diagnoses that make Alzheimer’s disease in older people with memory leaks are misdiagnosis in which confuses this pathology with mixed dementia, vascular or even dietary supplements that are perfectly treatable dementia dementia ”. Amparo Rodriguez, PhD in psychology and psychologist of the residence José María Azkuna in Amorebieta-Etxano (Bizkia), managed by the Group Sociosanitario Igurco exposes this afternoon in a conference entitled ‘ memory stimulation does not have age ’ keys influencing the maintenance of memory in this group, as well as various exercises to your stimulation.

Doctor in Psychology Conference is part of the fourth edition of the training programme for families of dependent elderly people, organized by the IMQ aid service, in collaboration with Igurco (both, from the IMQ group), and took place on Wednesday, February 29, in Bilbao (Alameda Rekalde)(, 50, 3rd floor).

As has advanced the expert is important to note that changes in memory in older people do not occur due to lateness of his age. As we are getting older, we are not forgetting of what we have learned throughout our lives. This is a general idea that it is necessary to demystify ”, has stressed.

In fact, when ageing is accompanied by illness especially if it is neurological, memory loss that may be worrying, but this fact can also take place at any other stage in our life ”.

Psychological disorders may also affect the memory

Dr. Amparo Rodriguez pointed out also that the disorders that may experience memory both may be due to psychological reasons (such as for example, an emotional impact, stress, depression, anxiety, etc.) as pathological (a blow to the head, anesthetics and medications for insomnia)(, certain circulatory disorders, alcoholism, smoking and Alzheimer, among others) ”.

First symptoms that can alert a memory loss

Whereas the memory the ability to record, retain and recall the various events, data or information that we perceive through the five senses ”, the expert has pointed out some of the symptoms that can warn the loss of memory. Thus, it begins to manifest itself because of the difficulty of remembering data relatively little important. With the passage of time, these oversights become larger and affect our daily life, even to produce episodes of disorientation temporal, spatial and personal ”.

The loss of memory, if it is large, affects directly and significantly to various tasks of daily life of the patient. For this reason, the early detection of memory loss is an impact on the confidence of people suffering this problem, that offers the hope that something can be done to identify the risk delaying the manifestations of the disease and improving the quality of life of those affected ”.

How to improve memory

The psychologist of the residence of José María Azkuna, belonging to the network of social infrastructure of the Diputación Foral of Bizkaia and managed by Igurco has stated that each person, regardless of age, can learn to improve memory through a series of techniques or exercises in order to improve their quality of life. The exercises must be suitably adapted to the individual characteristics of the greatest, i.e. their cultural level both his mental level, by modifying the different dynamics of work to the rhythms of everyone, avoiding fatigue or tiring to the person and trying to finish always positively ”.

In this sense, all studies indicate that exercise and a good diet is the best thing we can do to keep us in full capacity and full performance throughout our lives. From there, there are several specific techniques to stimulate memory ”. Among these, the psychologist Igurco mentioned the completion of a list of activities made or by doing, as for example an agenda of errands or keeping a journal; drafting an agenda of telephone numbers and addresses; read the daily news and comment on them; do crosswords and puzzles; perform calculation exercises and dictation, etc. ”.

All these activities can be carried out both individually as a group favoring the mental stimulation ”. It is important to find activities that we like, as hobbies in order to reduce stress, what helps to a better functioning of the brain ”.