A doctor and psychotherapist, Zhipek Zholdasova, explains an interesting feature of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
The expert writes that with the average degree of Alzheimer’s disease development, many patients experience problems with taking medication. «There are many reasons:
- for some, it’s delusions of poisoning. They refuse to take medication so as not to be poisoned.
- Others simply get tired of taking drugs and start making excuses — their liver will fail, their stomach hurts, and they feel bad from the pills (although they used to tolerate them normally).
- Some forget to take them, and family members don’t monitor their medications.
- Others can’t swallow a pill…
And the cycle continues endlessly.»
The expert emphasizes that in these situations, relatives of patients should not be upset because there are other solutions:
«For all these life situations, there are alternative forms of medication available worldwide — in the form of syrup and patches. Syrup can be given with any food, and the patch can be applied between the shoulder blades and changed every day
A couple of years ago, a new patch with an antidementia drug was released in the USA. It is applied to the back, but for a whole week and changed once a week. Very convenient. Not long ago, Korea approved this patch for use in their country.»
