Event to mark World Alzheimer's Day
Action day on 22 September at Chemnitz University of Technology
Coping with Alzheimer's disease and senile dementia in everyday life poses major challenges for sufferers and their relatives every day. The diagnosis of dementia brings major changes for affected families. Worries, fears and uncertainties place an additional burden on everyday life. This makes it all the more important to integrate the topic of dementia into society, to strengthen carers and to show those affected and their relatives how life with dementia can be a success. That is why this year's day of action on the occasion of World Alzheimer's Day has this motto and offers those affected, relatives, carers, trainees, volunteers, neighbourhood helpers, everyday companions and all interested parties a broad information forum on the subject of dementia.
The DemenzNetz_C(hemnitz) invites you to the day of action on Saturday, 22 September 2018, from 8.30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Chemnitz University of Technology (Weinholdbau), Reichenhainer Str. 70, 09126 Chemnitz. Admission is free. Registration is not required. The aim is to make it easier for relatives to attend the event by offering free care for the duration of the event by a professional care service on site. The facility is barrier-free. Car parking is available behind the building.
In addition to interesting specialist presentations on the latest research, diagnostics and therapy options as well as care law options, information stands on respite services and new technologies and aids, the event will also provide an opportunity for interesting discussions. From 8.30 a.m. to 2 p.m., competent contact persons from various service providers, experts from outpatient and inpatient care and nursing services as well as employees from the Department for Senior Citizens' and Disability Assistance, Local Care Authority of the Social Welfare Office, will be available for a personal and, if necessary, confidential discussion.
The event will present modern options that can support the challenges of living with dementia and relieve the burden on relatives. Tailored to individual nutritional requirements and health conditions, the company Apetito offers various tasty special diets and invites you to a tasting session with specific advice on the subject of nutrition. Pioneering technologies such as ageing-in-place systems and the OPDEMIVA laboratory flat, a research project of Chemnitz University of Technology, will be available for viewing.
A reading in the form of an experience report by Sophie Rosentreter will be particularly exciting for family carers. Her grandmother Ilse fell ill with dementia. Sophie Rosentreter and her family did not accept any help for 7 years. "We thought we had to manage it on our own. After all, it was our grandma." The relatives were suddenly confronted with depression and aggression. It was during this time that the mistakes were made that others can learn from today.
Registration is not required. The aim is to make it easier for relatives to attend the event by offering free care for the duration of the event by a professional care service on site. The facility is barrier-free. Parking is available behind the building.
Further information is available at: www.chemnitz.de/chemnitz/de/leben-in-chemnitz/senioren/leben-mit-demenz/index.html