World Alzheimer’s Disease Day is observed every year on September 21.
Subramanian, president of Rotaract Club of Dr MGR Janaki College of Arts and Science which organised a rally near Gandhi statue at Marina yesterday, said the disease is causing panic amongst senior citizens.
Alzheimer’s Disease International is celebrating year 2011 as ‘Faces of Dementia’. Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a complex brain disorder, takes its name after the German physician, Alois Alzheimer, who first identified it in 1906.
Neuro physician, Dr A V Srinivasan, said the disease is primarily caused due to blood supply, dementia and age-associated problems. The disease shows symptoms like lapse of memory, behavioural change and sudden emotional burst.
After being ‘crowned’ the diabetes and heart diseases capital of the world, India, with its increasing population of senior citizens, might soon be the Alzheimer capital of the world as well, claimed Dr Srinivasan.
Neuro physicians across the world are warning people that high stress and memory loss were preliminary stages of the disease.
The rally was organised by Rotary Club of Madras in partnership with Rotaract Club of Madras Coromandel (RCMC). The office-bearers of Rotary Club and RCMC later released a book on AD.
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