China News Service, Xiamen, September 20 (Reporter Yang Fushan) September 21 is "World Alzheimer's Day."
On this occasion, the "Xama Charity·Focus on Alzheimer's Disease Activity-Light Up Your Memory" charity activity was launched in Xiamen Yuxiu Community on the 20th, walking into the community to send relatives to the elderly with Alzheimer's disease Such warmth also arouses more public attention to Alzheimer's disease.
Hua Yun, the general manager of Xiamen Wenguang Sports Co., Ltd., the organizer of this charity event, said that the "Light Up Your Memory" event entered the community and hoped that through loving publicity and promotion, more people would realize that there are countless elderly people around them. The memory is fading, arousing public attention to Alzheimer's disease and joining the "Yellow Band Operation".
The scene of public welfare activities.
Photo by Yang Fushan
"When we see elderly people wearing'yellow bracelets' on the street, please extend a caring hand to help these elderly people, take them home, and give them warmth." She said.
Supported by the China Population Welfare Foundation, the "Light Up Your Memory" series of public welfare activities initiated by Xiamen Charity will bring more knowledge about the prevention, treatment and care of Alzheimer's disease to the elderly and their families. , Calling on the whole society to take care of the physical and mental health of the elderly.
Related data show that in 2015, the number of dementia patients worldwide reached 46.8 million, of which 50%-75% were Alzheimer's disease patients.
According to the 2016 "China Elderly Lost Status Survey Report", there are about 500,000 lost elderly people nationwide each year, and an average of 1370 elderly people are lost every day; in terms of age, 80% of elderly people over 65 are lost; lost, mental illness and Alzheimer's disease is an important reason for the loss of the elderly.
The longer the elderly are lost, the greater the harm caused to them.
The scene of public welfare activities.
Photo by Yang Fushan
"Yellow bracelet" is a universal symbol for patients with senile dementia (Alzheimer's disease) in the world, and it is also a symbol for people who are easily lost.
It uses striking yellow as the base color, and each "yellow bracelet" has an independent code and family contact information for the elderly to help the elderly find their way home.
Grandma Chen, 73, who received the yellow bracelet at the event, told reporters that the older she gets, the more she can't remember things, and now no one dares to go too far.
I heard that the Xiamen Marathon was going to the community to distribute anti-lost yellow bracelets to the elderly, so she rushed to apply for one for herself.
"I am very worried that one day I will appear on the missing person notice." Grandpa Li, 76 this year, is a patient with Alzheimer's disease.
When receiving the yellow bracelet, the old man told reporters that his children are very busy every day and do not want to cause them too much trouble. After receiving the yellow bracelet, he will feel at ease when he goes out.
Zheng Kunmu, deputy chief physician of the Shennei Memory Clinic of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, said in an interview that the current society does not know enough about Alzheimer’s knowledge, and even some "talking about idiotic discoloration". It is very necessary for professionals to do the popularization work. With this opportunity today, the memory clinic team of the hospital "pulls over" to carry out related knowledge popularization and promotion in the community.
This series of public welfare activities will continue to go deep into the Xiamen Kangle Community and the Shanhai Health Trail-Huwei Mountain section in the near future, and hold the "Light Up Your Red Memory" community science activities and the "Light Up Your Mountain and Sea Memory" Chongyang Hiking activities.
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