Old man " forgetful " Perhaps the misfortune arises for old age dull-wittedly (Fig.)

Old man " forgetful " Perhaps the misfortune arises for old age dull-wittedly (Fig.)
Today ' Play on the 21st of September) It is " dull-witted day of international old age " ,The theme of this year is " Treat the dull-witted, early action, benefited for a long time " .
Last Friday, 2009 " yellow handkerchieves " held in Guangzhou by professional committees of dull-witted and relevant disease of association of health care for the aged of China, old age,etc. Silvery to care about the activity large-scaly and volunteer medical consultation on the activity, the expert points out, the senile dementia patient's memory obstacle and " forgetful " which the old man often presents There are four kinds of differences. Disease this have ten early-warning signal, so long as careful to observe and find the clue, can race against time in order to treat early. And correct nursing and effective psychology are dredged, can reduce this disease " lethality " to old man's life quality .
Take the post as a source of intern Shanshan Chen in document reporter
The dull-witted patient of old age of our country accounts for 1/5 of world
Commonly called as " senile dementia " Alzheimer disease cause by one kind going on brain obstacle diseases chronic because the brain cell is damaged, the brain cell damaged can not resume. Geriatrics neural head of the department chief physician Xu ShuWen of research institute of province of the People's Hospital of Guangdong Province points out, suffer from old man of disease this memory decline, lose daily viability usually, become short-tempered, capricious, totally lose self-care ability, need hands to care for all day.
The reporter learns, reaches 4.8% suffering from the dull-witted proportion of severe old age in the crowd over 65 according to the incomplete statistics, and by 80 years old, this figure rises to 15%~20%. It is estimated, there are senile dementia patients about 5 million persons now in our country, account for 1/5 that the total case of the world counted.
Vigilance should be maintained to the fact, a lot of senile dementia patients are found by family while often having quite serious condition, it is apt to delay the best time to treat.
" forgetful " It is apt to hit dull-wittedly for the old age " Shield "
Old age can't find because a lot of people and the elderly forgetful to obscure old age early while being dull-witted. In fact, " forgetful " of senile dementia and ordinary old man There are obvious differences:
The old man is forgetful, generally forget a part of the incident, is reminded and will also remember by people. In the senile dementia patient's memory, this incident whole " evaporates " ,Reminded repeatedly by people not to remember either this happens.
The forgetful old man will not change in time, place, personage's relation, surrounding environment recognition capability. And the senile dementia patient is shown as and lost recognition capability to the surrounding environment, do not know where.
It is influenced that the old man is too forgetful to form the self-care ability of life, but the senile dementia patient will lose the self-care ability of life gradually.
The forgetful old man will know oneself is forgetful, behave very worriedly, will try every possible means to remind oneself. The senile dementia patient does not perceive at all to one's own abnormal state, not worried, thinking becomes more and more obtuse.
For family:
Look after the dull-witted old man, is often regarded as bitter work by relatives. The expert points out, so long as the skill of grasping exchanging with patient and psychology and dredging, can raise and attend to efficiency.
While speaking with the old man, should pay attention to avoiding the external noise disturbance, sight gazes at a patient to pay close attention to while speaking, express friendship with a smile. Call his name first, speak simply directly, speaks a thing briefly each time. Try hard to use the declarative sentence, don't use " you are " (used at the end of a question)? " ,etc. interrogative sentence. The tone should be gentle, the language speed is slow, wait for the old man to answer patiently, keep attention-focusing.
The dull-witted old man can not often understand relatives' words, should brief on more at this moment, make sure not to blame him, in order to reduce his setback sense. The expert reminds, the persons who attend to should pay attention to, don't pretend to understand his answer, there should patience that is explained repeatedly more. Propose cooperating with material object picture and photo, utilize the body language to assist to comfort, encourage and praise in right time. As the old man does the wrong time, should not " take it seriously " with him Argue, does not correct him dogmatically either, but should be advised patiently, comes along his meaning.
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