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15/02/2022

‘She played hard to get. But we are in love now as much as we ever were.' 💕

This Valentine's Day, we're celebrating how strong the bonds of love can be. Mavis, 81, and Neville, 82 - (featured on the right) - have been married since he was 21 and she was 20.

Neville continues, 'When we wake up in the morning I give her a kiss like I did 60 years ago, and she tells me how much she loves me and kisses me good morning too.’

Mavis came to the UK from Jamaica at the age of 15. A few years later, she met Neville, also from Jamaica, at a friend's party. Mavis kept him at arms’ length, though he remembers taking her to the cinema and wooing her with chocolates. After marrying, the couple settled in Tottenham, north London.

In 2016, Mavis was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia. There have been challenges but with support from both Neville and her daughter, Maz, Mavis is keeping as happy as possible. And Neville says, 'Together, we've seen our love grow deeper every day.'

Stanley, 87, and Brenda, 84, (featured on the left) were married in Wi******er in 1960. Stanley was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2020, shortly after they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.

Stanley comments, 'She was the prettiest girl in Andover.' He still loves to reminisce about their meeting at a dance in Wi******er in the 1950s.

Brenda says, 'The secret to our long marriage is that we are life partners, we look after each other. And, despite everything we've been through these past two years, we continue to find joy in our three daughters, six grandsons, and two great granddaughters.'

Thank you to Stan, Brenda, Neville and Mavis for sharing their precious stories and pictures with us today. To share special photos and memories of you and your loved ones, please add them in the comments below. 💞

And, if you need help adapting to life after a dementia diagnosis, please call us on 0333 150 3456.

08/02/2022

21/01/2022

Our panel looks at a specially developed comforter that’s been designed to make you feel like you’re being hugged.

06/01/2022

Sabe como pode prevenir a hipertensão?
- Reduzindo a ingestão de sal (para menos de 5g por dia);
- Comendo mais frutas e vegetais;
- Sendo fisicamente ativo;
- Evitando o tabaco;
- Reduzindo o consumo de álcool;
- Limitando a ingestão de alimentos ricos em gorduras saturadas.

28/12/2021

É com muito orgulho que terminamos 2021 com notícia de que a Alzheimer Portugal é a primeira instituição em Portugal a conseguir a certificação internacional "Cuidados em Demência livres de Contenções”!

Sabia que é possível CUIDAR sem recurso a contenções e que, inclusive, isso traz benefícios para a Pessoa cuidada?
Partindo desta ideia, resultado da sua prática diária, a Alzheimer Portugal passou recentemente por um processo de certificação da responsabilidade da CEAFA e da Fundación Maria Wolff que agora confirma que os Centros de Dia da Alzheimer Portugal cumprem os requisitos para obter a certificação internacional “Cuidados em Demência livres de Contenções”.

Saiba mais no nosso site: https://alzheimerportugal.org/pt/news_text-77-1-1342-alzheimer-portugal-obtem-certificacao-internacional

[Foto de uma das formações da equipa do Centro de Dia Prof. Doutor Carlos Garcia]

27/12/2021

Promover o bem-estar, a memória e a interação social são os objetivos da iniciativa ″Dançar com Parkinson″.

16/12/2021

Remembering the loss of a loved one at Christmas can make the festive period a very emotional time. In this moving piece, Susan Barlow recounts the what-would-be last Christmas with her husband Ian in his care home in 2019.

11/12/2021

This , Sean Graham shares a stunning photo of his beloved mum holding him as a baby in the 1960s.💙⁣

His mum, Caroline, sadly passed away on the 1st November, aged 76, having been diagnosed with Alzheimer's a year earlier.

He says: ⁣'It was so hard to choose just one photo of us, as we were always together. Despite having an older half-brother and two younger half-sisters, I was at home with mum for much of my life - and it was just the two of us. She loved the sunshine and the beach just like myself now. And she also instilled the values of hard work and tenacity in me. Mum successfully owned and ran two hotels - and for three and a half years, we worked in the same building, a time that I dearly cherish.

It was after her retirement in 2011 that mum slowly started to change. But despite setbacks, mum still had a very active social life; until 2019, when things started to change rapidly. Later that year, the number of falls she had became more frequent, and she started to get confused over everyday tasks; at this point, I started to check in on her every day, then daily functions from cooking to paying bills became my domain. Finally, in November 2020 came the confirmation of the Alzheimer's diagnosis.

Although it's early days in the grieving process, it brings me great comfort that she responded verbally to our conversations in her last day in hospital. I spent nearly every day with her the last two years as her carer - and feel privileged to have kept her in her own home, apart from her last three days.'

To share precious photos, stories and memories of you and your loved ones - who are living with or have been affected by dementia - either add a picture and copy in the comments below or tag us, using the throwback hashtag.

07/12/2021

Sabia que o grupo das Demências Frontotemporais é constituído pela Demência Frontotemporal, Afasia Progressiva não-Fluente, Demência Semântica e a Doença de Pick❓

🧠 Este grupo específico de Demências carateriza-se pela degeneração de um ou ambos os lobos frontais e temporais do cérebro.

A Demência Frontotemporal é o subtipo mais comum e representa, sobretudo, uma perturbação do comportamento. As pessoas com este tipo de Demência podem tornar-se desinibidas ou apáticas.

Lembre-se que estamos disponíveis para prestar informação, aconselhamento e/ou apoio através da nossa Linha de Apoio na Demência, 963604626, em dias úteis das 9h30 às 13h e das 14h às 17h.

📌 Consulte o nosso site para saber mais: https://alzheimerportugal.org/pt/text-0-9-39-36-demencias-frontotemporais

26/10/2021

Sabia que o diagnóstico de Demência passa por vários processos?

O diagnóstico pode incluir a realização de:
🔸 Um registo da história clínica detalhada da pessoa;
🔸 Um exame físico e neurológico aprofundado, que inclui te**es aos sentidos e aos movimentos;
🔸 Exames laboratoriais, entre os quais análises ao sangue e à urina;
🔸 Outros exames especializados, como Raio X, Tomografia Axial Computorizada (TAC), etc.;
🔸 Uma avaliação neuropsicológica e uma psiquiátrica.

Só um médico especialista (neurologista ou psiquiatra) poderá avaliar cada caso e proceder ao diagnóstico.

Para mais informações e/ou esclarecimentos pode contactar a nossa Linha de Apoio na Demência (963604626) e também o nosso site em: https://alzheimerportugal.org/pt/text-0-9-33-20-diagnosticar-a-demencia