"With all my heart in it": That is the motto of the "Alzheimer Society Lechrain - Self-Help Dementia", which was founded last weekend.
As part of the campaign weekend in Schongau, the chairmen Doris Kettner and Petra Stragies presented the diverse range of programs.
Schongau
- There was no shortage of personal greetings and video messages in the Ballenhaussaal.
District Administrator Andrea Jochner-Weiß said she could well empathize with the fact that the whole family is affected when a family member suffers from dementia.
“You have to experience how someone close to you changes.” Every encounter requires an infinite amount of patience.
"Courage, strength and many comrades-in-arms"
And that's exactly why they need the support of the newly founded association with its diverse program.
"It is a blessing to relieve the family." She wished the club courage, strength and many comrades-in-arms.
Schongau's mayor, Falk Sluyterman, said that the newly founded Alzheimer Society Lechrain is an asset to the district because the issue of dementia is now spreading across all social classes.
He recalled that it was the doctor Alois Alzheimer who first described the disease in 1902.
Unfortunately, medicine has not made any progress since then.
Medication could counteract this for a time.
However, since the cause is unknown, the process can neither be reversed nor stopped.
"That is why it is extremely important that there are people in this situation who do not leave dementia patients and their relatives alone, advise them, support them, offer help and impart knowledge."
There were a lot of video messages
Video messages were also sent by Sabine Jansen from the German Alzheimer's Society, Sonja Womser from the regional association of the Bavarian Alzheimer's Society and Landsberg's District Administrator Thomas Eichinger.
The program and the range of support offered by the newly founded Alzheimer Society Lechrain - there are 136 such societies in Germany and twelve in Upper Bavaria - is varied.
For example, the offer “Going together” around Schongau's city wall for relatives of people with dementia every third Monday of the month.
Or the “Help to Help” training program for relatives and friends of people with dementia.
Visits to the farm and lectures such as “We are speakers on the subject of 'dementia goes to school'” are also offered for the 7th grade of the secondary school and for the 4th grade of the primary school.
“This is a project close to my heart,” says chairwoman Doris Kettner.
You can feel the concern of the children when they notice how their grandma and grandpa are increasingly changing and their condition is deteriorating.
Animal-assisted visits are also available
Other offers from the Alzheimer Society Lechrain include the “Animal-Assisted Visit” and the “Discover Art Together” project, as well as the “Bayrische G'schichtn” reading hour with Erwin Höpfl and the “Seniors live on the farm” project.
The program of the last week of action also included the large art exhibition “Who are you today?
Who are you today? ”With the artist Thorsten Fuhrmann.
239 works of art by 159 artists from 29 countries were exhibited in the Fritz Holzhey family's tanners' room in Lechvorstadt.
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