Stakeholders Advocate Increased Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness

Caring Lot International Initiative (CLII),and National Association of Seadogs(NAS), Sahara Deck, yesterday advocated stronger collaboration among stakeholders to summation Alzheimer’s illness consciousness campaign.

Alzheimer’s illness is simply a benignant of dementia that affects memory, reasoning and behaviour. Symptoms yet turn terrible capable to interfere with regular tasks.

The telephone was made successful Abuja astatine an lawsuit to people the 2025 World Alzheimer’s Day, organised by CLII, NAS and Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Speaking to LEADERSHIP connected the sidelines of the event, main enforcement officer, CLII, Mrs Lawunmi Ismail, explained that raising consciousness for the illness is necessary, arsenic galore Nigerians particularly successful the agrarian areas, deficiency accusation connected dementia related illnesses.

“We privation to rise awareness, due to the fact that each implicit the satellite radical instrumentality attraction of their aged ones.We privation argumentation makers successful Nigeria to cognize that determination is simply a illness that is not talked astir that is affecting our aged ones.

“So we are taking the pb and urging argumentation makers to articulation hands with america to make much consciousness truthful radical volition cognize however to supply attraction and efficaciously negociate the disease.”

Also speaking, Prof Adesoji Adesugba,1st lawman president, Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said, “We request to amended radical connected what to bash erstwhile it comes to things similar Alzheimer’s.It is simply a degenerative benignant of encephalon concern that astir radical don’t cognize is communal successful Nigeria.So it is important to fto radical cognize of the beingness of this disease.”

Chike Onyia, president of the National Association of Seadogs (NAS), Sahara Deck, Abuja chapter, noted that galore aged Nigerians unrecorded with the illness but don’t look to recognize it, truthful determination is simply a request to enlighten radical connected the illness and amended them connected however to negociate it.

The speakers unanimously said it was unfortunate that those suffering from Alzheimer’s illness endure stigma, including children, retired of ignorance, mocking them.