At first you don’t remember certain things, at a certain point you also forgot skills that you actually always had: dementia is affecting more and more people in Upper Austria. A problem that is mainly ‘female’, because more women than men suffer from it. But there is help.
Singing old songs together, playing with balloons, remembering customs: the dementia groups of the MAS Alzheimerhilfe are informal. “No one should be afraid that we will test them,” says Karin Laschalt, head of the seven MAS dementia service centers in Upper Austria. Men and women with dementia meet each other every week in about 100 groups. About 22,000 compatriots are directly affected – almost two-thirds are women. Around 145,000 people across the country suffer from dementia, and experts expect this number to double by 2030!
Source: Krone
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