Dementia is also true of younger people+++ the care – a challenge for members +++ If the heart valve needs to be replaced
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Podcast: If dementia is not only in the age
In the case of dementia, we usually think first of all, Alzheimer’s disease, the dreaded Forgotten, and old people. But there are also other forms of dementia – for example, the so-called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD.
This disease can occur very early, sometimes even at people around the age of 40 or 50. The degradation of nerve cells occurs first in the forehead and the area, temple, hence the Name Frontotemporal.
Characteristics of this disease are, among other things, that the personality changes and the human behavior. Affected individuals are often aggressive, but also apathetic. In the case of Norbert, the incurable disease has been diagnosed with just 50 – and suddenly, nothing is as it once was. Hannah Lesch met with him and also with his husband.
Not infrequently, the members, who suffer more from diseases such as dementia as the Manager or the person themselves. Dementia is a major challenge. The patient must be adequately maintained, either by family members, are overwhelmed so often, or by nursing staff in nursing homes and related facilities. This is also in China, reports our Reporter Axel Dorloff. Also, the proportion of older people rises steeply, in the last 25 years, the number has more than tripled.
The heart valve surgery is performed today mostly minimally invasive.
If the heart valve.
In Germany, heart disease is still the leading cause of death. In the year, more than 350,000 people die from it. The are far more people die as a cancer. The Surprising: more women die of this disease than men to heart – for example, if the heart valves no longer work properly – so the German heart report in 2016, the 25. January was presented by the German heart Foundation.
The heart valve replacement has long been one of the Routine operations. Most mechanical Valves made of metal are used, or heart valves from pigs. These are the human heart valve is very similar. In the heart center Bad Oeynhausen by Jan Gummert works but also with a flap that is made of the pericardium of bovine. Gudrun Heise has spoken with him.