La Rioja 2,500 suffering from Parkinsons and almost 4,000 alzheimer

Brain stimulation can help prevent or delay Alzheimer’s disease

-El Centre Cultural Caja Rioja – Gran Vía yesterday hosted the last Conference of the Hall of health in the 2011-2012 season under the title am what is happening to me? ” shake Me the pulse. I forget things. Parkinson. How to recognize? When I have to go to the doctor? carried out by the specialist in neurology, DRA. Belinda Matute Tobias and the geriatrics and medical director of Viamed in La Rioja Dr. Fernando Martín Ciancas in which specialists responded to questions that are many people arriving at the gates of old age on small disorders or changes physicists.

-the increase of life expectancy, passes its Bill to an increasingly aging society with two very common neurodegenerative diseases: Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease of Alzheimer’s disease (ad) is the neurodegenerative disorder with increased incidence in middle age with more than 360,000 patients in Spain affecting 6-8% of the over 65s. Disease Parkinson’s disease (PD) appears in second place with nearly 100,000 patients affect 1-2% of the elderly of 65 years.

-symptoms such as deterioration in memory to amnesia, deficit of trial and thought, personal and Anatomy-spatial disorientation, and the classic syndrome of agnosia-apraxia – aphasia, deficit of the language in Alzheimer’s disease and tremor in the hands, arms, legs and jaw or head; rigidity or stiffness of the limbs and the trunk; bradicinesia, or slow movements; and postural instability; as well as deterioration of the balance in the case of Parkinson’s, they are the beginning of a few diseases that significantly decrease the quality of life of affected individuals and their families.

Logroño, April 2012.- The neurologist of Hospital Viamed Los Manzanos, DRA. Belinda Matute and the geriatrics and medical director of Viamed La Rioja, Dr. Fernando Martín conducted yesterday in Centre Cultural Caja Rioja – Gran Vía, in Gran via 2 the Conference am what is happening to me? ” shake Me the pulse. I forget things. Parkinson. How to recognize? When I have to go to the doctor? ”, within the cycle of conferences classroom health Hospital Viamed Los Manzanos with the collaboration of the Caja Rioja Foundation organised. The Conference, which puts the classroom of health 2011-2012, end point had as protagonists the two most common diseases among the elderly neurodegenerative diseases: Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s.

The Conference was attended, as on previous occasions, with sign language interpreter. In addition, it aired in streaming through larioja.com.

Diseases associated with aging are currently one of the biggest problems for the health and welfare systems of developed countries, that the increase in average life expectancy (an estimated that soon more than 20% of the Western European population will exceed the 60 years) has led to an increase in chronic diseases linked to agestressing those affecting the central nervous system. The of Alzheimer disease (ad) is the neurodegenerative disorder with higher incidence in middle age with more than 360,000 patients in Spain affecting 6-8% of the over 65s. Disease Parkinson’s disease (PD) appears in second place, with around 100,000 patients and 1-2% of the same population to affect.

Both pathologies consume an increasing number of medical, pharmaceutical and social resources. Deteriorate in high degree the quality of life of the patient and their primary caregivers, generally women of the family of the victim that take care you in 85% of cases at home. It is estimated that 65% of primary caregivers will need medical or psychological attention specialized as a direct effect of psycho-physical stress of caring for continued, and that 20-25% of them end up developing what has come to be called “burn-out syndrome” or “burned caregiver”.

Both are diseases of the brain, degenerative nature and chronic and progressive course. Today they are incurable as medications and other medical techniques available only relieve or control the symptoms temporarily but do not remove the cause that creates the disease.

Both the EA and the EP affect primarily the elderly, although not exclusive already that the forms early constitute 10% of the total in the case of the EA and 15-20% in the EP. The prevalence of affected by EA, EP or both in the Strip between 85 to 89 years age can become 1 of every 4 elders.

The life expectancy of a patient of EP idiopathic or essential is only a few years less than the population of the same age, while Alzheimer’s disease life expectancy Yes is reduced substantially, resulting the time average survival from diagnosis of eight to twelve years.