Who takes care of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease?
“Don’t forget me,” a project designed by Joseph Fitzgerald Arboleda Velásquez, was launched in 2005 to offer workshops for the relatives of patients with hereditary Alzheimer’s disease. Arboleda Velasquez studied medicine at the University of Antioquia and later received a PhD in cerebrovascular diseases from Boston University. Those who participate in the workshops can pass their knowledge on to others who take care of those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, named after the German psychiatrist Aloysius “Alois” Alzheimer (1864-1915) who discovered it. The initiative, sponsored by the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Luxembourg, Luxembourg’s Rotary Association and the Rotary Association of Western Medellín, was overseen by physician and psychiatrist Adolfo Ruiz Jiménez and Pierre Lutgen, a Belgian professor of physical chemistry who used to teach at the University of Antioquia. “People from rural areas (peasants) and people from very poor families are more sensitive to the care of their ow
