The Center of Empowerment and Elderly Care (Ehsan), affiliated to the Qatar Social Work Foundation, celebrates the World Alzheimer's Day, which falls on September 21 of each year, by organising several events and awareness workshops in co-operation with different parties.
This time around, the centre is organising an awareness campaign on social networking sites under the slogan "Know about Alzheimer's disease" with the aim of translating the vision and mission of the centre through which it seeks to contribute to human and social development in the country, and enhance recognition of the role of the elderly and support their active contributions in the society. The idea is to raise awareness of the seriousness of this disease as well as highlight the importance of early detection of it in the elderly and its role in delaying the stages of disease development besides identifying the most appropriate mechanisms to deal with the disease in the elderly in social terms.
The centre will also organise, during the coming period, awareness workshops in co-operation with Hamad Medical Corp, including a special workshop for its employees who deal directly with the elderly to help them find ways to detect Alzheimer's disease in the elderly. (QNA)
