Alzheimer Society Rachit Patel

1. Alzheimer SocietyRachit Patel

2. Alzheimer Disease: • It is a fatal and progressive disease of brain, that destroys brain cells. It is the most common form of dementia. • Because of Alzheimer patient finds difficulty to remember things, to make decisions and to perform everyday activities. • Patient finds difficulty with language and also for recalling past activities. • Mood and behaviour changes are also symptoms of Alzheimer. • Overall it affects quality of life and make it worse.

3. The Alzheimer Society • It is the leading not-for-profit health organization working nationwide to improve the quality of life for Canadians affected by Alzheimer's disease. •  Since its founding in 1978, the Alzheimer Society has grown and expanded to serve Canadians. • It believes to care with respect and trust.

4. Guiding Principles: • Dignity and respect: To create positive conditions where the person can live without fear of shame and are given opportunity for self-determination and self-expression. • Acceptance and understanding: To accept each person with unconditional positive regard and to assist the person to continue to enjoy basic personal freedoms. The Alzheimer Society uses the Forget Me Not flower as a symbol to represent memory loss, one of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. It is also a reminder to remember people with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and their caregivers.

5. The Alzheimer Society helps by providing information, resources, education, support and counselling about Alzheimer and dementia. Provide Service through wide network of local Alzheimer society in Canada. Alzheimer Society of Ontario with network of 37 Alzheimer Societies across Ontario provide support programs, educational resources and improve the quality of life for people living with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. There is no doubt that caring for a person with Alzheimer's disease can be frustrating and difficult. But it can also be rewarding.Their aim to learn more and more about how to provide good care for the person with Alzheimer's disease.

6. Alzheimer society provides help to patient and their caregivers about: • Routines and reminders • Personal care • Maintaining a safe and dementia friendly environment. • Planning for the future- financial planning advice. • Treatment options. • To stay connected and to build up relationship to support patient as well as his family members.

7. How Alzheimer society can help? • Education • The Alzheimer Society provides many educational opportunities for people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, caregivers, and health-care professionals. • Information • Information for caregivers: Aims to give caregivers all of the information they need to make informed decisions. • Information for health-care professionals • Information for the person with dementia: Aims to provide information to help people living with dementia. 

8. Cont.. • Support: •  Provide lots of support for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, caregivers, family members, and health-care professionals. To help and support a person with dementia, a family member, or caregiver, they have created a number of brochures with details. • Reducing caregivers stressprovides suggestions to support caregivers in giving the best possible care and also to take care of themselves. • First step outlines a step-by-step plan to help people who are newly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.

9. Cont.. • Resources: The Alzheimer Society of Canada provides lots of resources for people with dementia, family members, caregivers, and health-care professionals. • Multimedia: The Power of Music • Music can be a powerful source of joy, comfort and inspiration in our lives. People living with dementia and their family members attest to the important role music has in their lives. The Alzheimer Society created the video, "When words fail, music speaks" to show the positive impact of music. • For health-care professionals: Caring for people with Alzheimer's disease is a long-term commitment for health-care providers, different resources for screening, diagnosis etc. available for them.

10. Cont.. • Public awareness(For the general public) • The Alzheimer Society provides many opportunities to learn more about dementia and the research to find a cure. • Corporate information sessions • The Alzheimer Society offers corporate information sessions for companies that are interested in learning more or becoming corporate partners.

11. Alzheimer Society Research Program • The Alzheimer Society Research Program (ASRP) is a collaborative work in which all the provincial Alzheimer Societies, the Alzheimer Society of Canada (ASC), partners and donors pull together to support research directed at both dementia and improving the lives of those affected by it.  • The ASRP provides grants and awards to support Canadian studies that promise new insights into causes, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. • Alzheimer Society programs and services: • First link: Connects people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias to their local Alzheimer Society and other community resources as early in the disease process as possible. • MedicAlert safely home :program developed by the Alzheimer Society of Canada in partnership with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, helps police find people with dementia who are missing and return them home safely.

12. Raise your voice: The Alzheimer Society gives a voice to all Canadians affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias at all levels of government. • Volunteers: • Volunteers are the most important resource for charitable organizations like Alzheimer’s society. At the Alzheimer Society, volunteer time and energy are essential to help and support people living with dementia. • Do you know……?? • ❋ This society holds a nationwide fundraising event, Alzheimer Coffee Break each September, to raise funds to support local programs and services • ❋ receives most of its funding from individuals. • There are many ways are available for donation to make care more supportive for patient – people can donate by holding coffee break event, by mail or by telephone. • Alzheimer society believes in respect and openness about donation i.e. any donor allow to get information where his money of donation go, and also holds information of donation in confidence.

13. Sponsors -Mother parkers- Tea and coffee - Pfizer - Coffee break - BMO financial group - BMW Toronto - Scotia bank Vision of Alzheimer society: World without Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.