{"id":18183,"date":"2018-09-21T09:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T09:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/?p=18183"},"modified":"2018-09-21T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T09:50:54","slug":"world-alzheimers-day-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/world-alzheimers-day-today\/","title":{"rendered":"World Alzheimer&rsquo;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;padding-left:;padding-right:;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-1 {\r\n                            padding-left: px !important;\r\n                            padding-right: px !important;\r\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-center fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-\" style=\"border-color:#a36160;\"><\/div><\/div><h1 class=\"title-heading-center\"><span style=\"color: #a36160;\"><strong>Today Is World Alzheimer\u2019s Day <\/strong><\/span><\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-\" style=\"border-color:#a36160;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep sep-none\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:;\"><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, <strong>September<\/strong> <strong>21<sup>st <\/sup>2018, <\/strong>marks the <strong>14<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary<\/strong> of <strong>World Alzheimer\u2019s Day<\/strong>. This <strong>international campaign<\/strong> was created for<strong> organisations globally<\/strong> to encourage people to <strong>spread the word<\/strong> about <strong>Alzheimer<\/strong>\u2019s which is the most <strong>common<\/strong> and recognized form of <strong>dementia<\/strong>. Despite affecting <strong>millions of people<\/strong> all over the world it is often not spoken about and is ignored when a person living with dementia is <strong>in need of support<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, on this day, <strong>international organisations<\/strong> such as <span style=\"color: #a36160;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #a36160;\" href=\"https:\/\/thepurpleelephant.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Purple Elephant<\/a><\/strong><\/span> light up city buildings in <strong>Toronto<\/strong>, <strong>Niagara<\/strong>, <strong>Chicago<\/strong>, <strong>New<\/strong> <strong>Orleans<\/strong>, and <strong>Vancouver<\/strong> in the colour <strong>purple<\/strong> to commemorate this day. This global action also hopes to raise <strong>awareness<\/strong> about the negative <strong>connotations<\/strong> associated with the<strong> disease<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <strong>Alzheimer\u2019s Society of Ireland<\/strong> some people are afraid or embarrassed to talk to people with Alzheimer\u2019s and <strong>2 out of 3<\/strong> people believe there is very little to no understanding of <strong>dementia<\/strong> in their countries globally.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these findings, <strong>millions of families worldwide<\/strong> struggle daily with the consequences of a family member suffering with <strong>Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/strong>. \u00a0The illness is often called a <strong>family disease<\/strong> because it <strong>touches everyone<\/strong> surrounding the person suffering with the illness as they slowly watch the decline of a <strong>loved one<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dementia <\/strong>is described as <strong>group of symptoms<\/strong> that occur when brain cells <strong>stop working properly<\/strong>. The people affected are unable to take care of themselves and would need <strong>assistance<\/strong> when it comes to <strong>everyday tasks<\/strong> due to the brain being <strong>permanently damaged<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>47.5 million people<\/strong> have dementia worldwide and <strong>9.9 million cases<\/strong> are diagnosed yearly which means every <strong>three seconds<\/strong> there is a <strong>new diagnosis<\/strong>. It is also believed that in the next 40 years Alzheimer\u2019s will triple in numbers. Although there are <strong>numerous people with Alzheimer\u2019s<\/strong>, there is still <strong>no cure for it<\/strong>. Today, <strong>Alzheimer\u2019s<\/strong> is the centre focus for <strong>biomedical research<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How to Get Involved In world Alzheimer\u2019s Day?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To participate in <strong>world Alzheimer\u2019s Month<\/strong>, you can organise your <strong>own event<\/strong> or help by <strong>donating <\/strong>to <strong>trusted organisations<\/strong> such as;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #a36160;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #a36160;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alz.co.uk\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ADI<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #a36160;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #a36160;\" href=\"http:\/\/thepurpleelephant.org\/pages\/donation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Purple Elephant<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","myguten_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-not-provided","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}