Mercè Boada
Understanding Alzheimer
Fundación ACE

- Half of the people here in this room will suffer from a type of Alzheimer´s when we reach 85 years old. Often when faced with such prospects, we rather think about what types of public transpotation we want to use or what type of glasses we would like to wear than how to deal with the possibility of living with a condition like Alzheimer´s”

- Spain is an aging nation, and this is only becoming more so as time goes on. We should start facing the prospect of how to live when we´re 90, but we have to take into account that we will be a generationsequiped with a whole range of new domestic technologies.

- Alzheimer is not the same as dementia.

- We are still in the limbo of investigation. We already are familiar with the condition, but we cannot rely on a single medicine to cure the sickness, in spite of the great investment made so far.

- “Those afflicted with Alzheimer´s have a great degree of implication and responsibility in managing the sickness. Those younger than 80 years with the capacity should decide the progression and nature of his or her dependency, how to live with the disesase and how to die.”