ASIA/TAIWAN - Catholic hospitals gives loving care to Alzheimer patients

Monday, 21 June 2004

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Tai Dong (Fides Service) - Today society in Taiwan, as elsewhere in the world, has to face the challenge of a growing population of elderly citizens, and all the connected ailments including Alzheimer disease. According to Christian Life Weekly, Taipei archdiocese bulletin, one out of 20 people over 60 in Taiwan suffers from Alzheimer; and the figure rises to one in 5 among those over 80.
To meet the needs of these people and their suffering families, Saint Mary’s Catholic Hospital run by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent De Paul recently offered a course of information on the Alzheimer disease. Moreover since 1997 the Catholic foundation “Catholic Sanipax Socio-Medical Service & Education” which has long experience of caring for Alzheimer patients has a site with information with regard treatment and care http://www.kungtai.org.tw/.
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