Thank you
the same day that I started working with
I knew I was in trouble
had participated in seminars had
had long conversations with colleagues
and with other professionals
so all face to face with the old
I felt loved
insecure fearful treated me babe me
they said he could be the age of his
children or who had not been born when
they passed the things that they told me
no knowledge seemed to be of
help for me not even the same
patients that I passed at the beginning what
attributed to the lack of experience
I also thought that it was not my vocation
perhaps old age was not mine but
Where did those sensations come from?
bitter
I assumed that all of that could be the tip
of one is to see and that something was happening
for high
so I stopped to think about these
things I had a few years of graduate
I was much younger then
so that such a task does not
it was not easy
I went from worry to
hope of anguish so I
I would probably lose to relief
get that time to rest from
feel more wise
in that moment I realized that what
had not done was to see with the eyes of
an old man put me in his place
get old as well as do not wear a
suit to see how it fits that was what
that I connect directly compensate me
and feel in the last stage of my
lifetime
we currently know that genetics is
responsible for only 25 per
hundred percent of our physical health versus
a 75 percent contribution from
they have
ie total we have 75
a hundred opportunities to impact
favorably in our process of
aging or 75 percent of
opportunities to spoil it with
habits like smoking too much
Take a diet high in fats do not
Physical or cognitive exercises bring
a poor social life then think about
a good aging implies not only
avoid these risk factors but in
develop what we know as
Protective factors
let’s think about this for a good part of
our adult life
we are dedicated to generating reserves and
savings of money thinking about our
old age
let’s make retirement because we know
that there will come a time when
we can continue economically
productive is not true
We put a lot of effort into protecting this
stage of our life that we already know we
will find more willing to
rest that to work and relieves us
know that our needs are
covered why it will be that we do not put
the same effort in procuring a
good cognitive reserve that we do today
for increasing that reserve and generating us
good retirement savings
neuronal because it is also true that
one of the great fears facing the
old age goes through the fear of having
alzheimer
the most common dementias and the one
more can affect our retirement
neuronal
so we need to talk about
the Alzheimer’s that we know in what
consists
to know how to do and not stigmatize if
well, it is becoming more and more frequent
Early onset of advanced age
continues to be one of the main
risk factors according to a report from
year 2016
there are 46 million people in the world
with dementia by 2030 it is expected that
be almost double and by 2050
this amount would triple these
figures are alarming the population
world is increasingly aging and
there is still no cure for the disease a
not encouraging prognosis
this is the world in which we live and in
which our children and grandchildren will live
and we hope to live to be 85 years old or
more the probability of contracting
alzheimer
It will be one in two
this means that all of us
we will have one of two options or that one
of us developed the disease or
I have to take care of someone who is
suffering from a partner
neighbor brother a loved one
will be in that situation
Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that
Degenerating the neurons that
they deal with memory neither more nor less
as the disease advances other
functions like motor skills are left
also engaged producing
big limitations but the most
affected throughout the entire process
it is without a doubt the memory
any of us can forget for
example where we leave the keys of the
auto or where we leave a remote control
or if we close the gas stopcock or
we even confuse the names of
our children or grandchildren
I for example usually forget the keys
from home at the door but from the side of
outside
and it happens to me quite often
this can be funny or
annoying but we know that they are forgotten
produced by attentional failures or a
emotional block
nothing else our life follows its course
although we pass again and again
very different is that someone finds
the keys but do not remember so that
was that they served or that suddenly
keys appear in the vega or that
someone forget that the word key
designate object that we use to put
the car in motion those are the forgetfulness
of a person with Alzheimer’s and they go
aggravating more and more because the
person besides not registering their
forgetfulness starts to get confused to get lost
in familiar places maybe it appears
in speech problems that prevent him
understand or communicate with their beings
dear ones and instead of confusing a name
with another he does not know familiar faces
as if I had never seen them before
Problems may arise over time
the march while all the symptoms
are accentuated until you reach the
prostration
fortunately, this deterioration is not
produces from one day to the next
It may take several years for a
process that is hard but that also
it gives us time to put together the trenches
and after all this I tell you
you still have not left the room
I would like to tell you how is that
process
imagine that our brain was a
archipelago of neurons as a
set of islands and the connections between
they bridges
now imagine that the connection between
those islands are broken
and the bridges begin to fall
one after another the brain wants to carry
the information to destination
but the roads are blocked
there is no where to go forward insists
forcefully until you find a
path in disuse but healthy at last if the
path was useful and communication
successful the brain will continue to go through
there the information for a while
more but we do not know how much
little by little what it was once a
archipelago with information
circulating through the different bridges
ends up being a set of islands
incommunicado in three and thus attack the
alzheimer
that’s why it scares us so much because we
isolates the incommunica fragments us as
people and sometimes because of that fear
we cling to denial and say
this has nothing to do with me
I lead a healthy life
nobody in my family got sick
the truth is that no investigation
has shown that we are 100%
protected as reasonable as we can
to do is to prepare ourselves as if we were
have Alzheimer’s that is neither more nor
less than taking care that the
connections between the bridges continue
and creating others by creating new bridges
how he built his sources
now comes at last a part with better
news
we have all our lives to build
neuronal connections
every time I learn something new a
footprint remains in my brain and if that
footprint has inscribed along with the
pleasure that I felt while executing what
learned
the brain is more likely to follow
driving my thoughts
over there and if what I learned is
associated with the name of the person who
taught and is also associated with
sounds you hear while
practiced the brain will no longer have a
path without ovaries to carry the
information to destination
I will be giving you more chances to
when any of the main bridges
break and no doubt more resources if
perhaps the brain no longer directs the rudder
nobody wants to have Alzheimer’s
so far no one of my loved ones
is in that situation although it is
true that for my work I’m in
contact with many relatives
caregivers and friends of people with this
disease
I know pain, impotence and
uncertainty that cause when you play
up close and I know also I’ve
verified the valuable contribution of the
associations against the evil of
alzheimer
I have taken the reins of the suffering of
who are already living with the
Illness of a loved one
seeing how the
person that they knew we offered
advice information and especially
with tension why is it so difficult and
painful to live with this disease
that the exchange of experiences with
other people make the pain hurt
least what I want to say is that when
those neural bridges have been broken
dancing to a loved one is vital that
relatives have other bridges
affective external bridges that
replace as best as possible these
inner neural bridges that have
broken because that and not another thing is
build a network to accompany
each other in the care of the sick
these the resources with which
we will at least count until the science
have other answers to give us
meanwhile I do not forget that the
aging is not an old thing
of young people is what I can do today
to own my own old age as
have you ever told me is the difference
between living until my death and not
my death
thank you very much
[Applause]
me
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