The Covid-19 worries Alzheimer’s patients and their families. During the first 15 days of November, “France Alzheimer 21” answered an average of 4 or 5 phone calls each day, which is what she usually receives in a week!
Between 10 and 20,000 côte-d’oriens struck by the disease
On the phone: families asking for advice or help when most of the services that usually help them are sluggish or teleworking. In France, officially, more than 1 million people are affected by this disease. In our department it is estimated that there are between 10 and 20,000 patients. Including family caregivers, this means that this disease directly or indirectly affects 40,000 coasts of Orient!
COVID-19 pulverizes Gérard and Annick’s life
Gérard is 75 years old, this inhabitant of Saint-Julien near Dijon, can testify to the enormous difficulties that the appearance of COVID-19 can pose in certain households already weakened by the disease. Gérard had been helping his wife since 2013 Annick home. At 74, Annick has suffered from Alzheimer’s for seven years. But the virus has come to shatter the fragile family balance and the whole organization imagined by Gérard to deal with the disease.
