CME conference on Alzheimer’s and taking charge of the person.

Wednesday 15 for the Ecm conference “Alzheimer: taking care of the person, a look between present and future”.

What treatments and what services do Alzheimer’s patients need? Universities, Lombardy Region, non-profit and professionals in comparison in Gazzada (Varese).

“Evolution of needs: a look at future services” is the theme of the round table starting on Wednesday 15 at 9 at Villa Cagnola in Gazzada Schianno (Varese) as part of the Ecm conference “Alzheimer: taking care of the person, a look into the present and future ”, organized by Uneba with the Molina Foundation and the Don Gnocchi Foundation. The planned interventions: “The present and the future of Alzheimer’s day centers” with Enrico Mossello, University of Florence; “Dementia and the network of services in Insubria” with Marco Mauri, University of Insubria; “A look at dementia through data from the FNA (Non Self Sufficiency Fund)” with Claudia Moneta, general manager of the family department of the Lombardy Region; “Dementia between life project and care project” with Fabrizio Giunco, Don Gnocchi Foundation.

“The places of care between the home and the supply units” is the second moment, from 11.45 am, with the interventions of Emanuele Monti, president of the Health Commission of the Lombardy Regional Council; Valeria Negrini, spokesperson for the Lombardy Third Sector Forum and vice president of the Cariplo Foundation; Antonio Sebastiano, director of the RSA Observatory at LIUC Business School; Alessandro Pirola, general manager of the Maddalena Grassi Foundation. Moderated by Luca Degani, president of Uneba Lombardia.

From 2.30 pm Carlo Maria Castelletti, president of the Molina Foundation, moderates the seminar: “Competence, decision-making capacity and consent to treatment in dementia” with the interventions of the notary Edoardo Rinaldi, the lawyer Barbara Cirivello and the accountant Marco Petrillo.

For the frailty of Alzheimer’s patients, residential structures remain fundamental

“Senile dementias require constant presence: Alzheimer’s cannot be cured with a few dozen hours of integrated home care per year!” With this observation based on the needs of the sick, the national president of Uneba Franco Massi highlighted the importance of RSAs of specialized day centers for Alzheimer’s. An importance that bitterly contrasts with the lack of attention of the NRP for the Rsa.

“We too are a public service: in the Rsa, 15% of the beds are from the Municipalities or in any case public, 25% from the private profit, 8% of the cooperation: the rest, more than 50%, is from the private non profit , represented above all by Uneba, and by Aris “.

“Institutional and home services must be cohabiting and coordinated – said Don Enzo Barbante, president of the Don Gnocchi Foundation – plus an important commitment to ensure adequate training for operators. And instead it seems to me that there is an extensive silence on the issues of training ”. It is impossible, Barbante found, to find the necessary staff for the 28,000 new welfare structures provided for by the NRP.

“We are alone – took over the president of the Molina Foundation Carlo Maria Castelletti-. There is no synergy between hospitals and our structures “. New paths of assistance continuity would be needed, he pointed out.

“The Alzheimer centers in the RSA allow the sick a quality of life that would otherwise be impossible”, observed Guido Bonoldi, municipal councilor with responsibility for Health of the Municipality of Varese but also former president of the Molina Foundation. “We want Varese to become a ‘city that cares’, enhancing the network and resources that already exist”.

Mons. Mario Vegezzi, episcopal vicar of the Diocese of Milan, left Uneba a wish: “I hope you can achieve the goal of taking care of people, and turning your gaze to the role of spirituality in care”.

“Thank you for the training and discussion space that you offer today, certain that it will be a useful tool for the future of your work and address the actions of the authorities that will accompany you today”, is a passage from the message sent by the president of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana.

A summary of the speeches at the conference (including those by Carla Pettenati, Antonio Guaita, Marco Trabucchi and Marco Annichiarico) will be published on www.uneba.org and disseminated in the Uneba newsletter.

CME conference on Alzheimer’s and taking charge of the person.