Olivia Amblard recounts her experience of caring for an Alzheimer's patient

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On the occasion of the world day against Alzheimer's disease, this episode of our news podcast Minute Papillon!

gives the floor to a witness to this pathology.

Olivia Amblard was a caregiver for her sick father, accompanying him throughout his illness until his death.

The loss of memory and the changes in the patient's mood, the fear, dependence, silence and isolation of caregivers, this mother has lived it all, surrounding her father and mother in these disorders which quickly occurred. developed.

Olivia Amblard then became a caregiver for the France Alzheimer association in Essonne, to inform, support and train people with a sick loved one.

She tells in Minute Papillon!

this experience, the pain but also the joys during the illness, and the importance, for caregivers, to be accompanied.

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