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Sunday, 9 June 2013
Dr. Robert Katzman On Alzheimer
The disease Alzheimer owes it's name to the first psychiatrist who, in 1906 described it as a rare form of senile dementia, that could affect people even younger than 65 years of age. Dr. Alois Alzheimer. If this general opinion had one day changed, it was due to Dr. Robert Katzman when he published an editorial in 1976: 'The prevalence and malignancy of Alzheimer's disease - a major killer'. This article convinced the medical profession that, if one day a way could be found to control Alzheimer, 50% of the older people can be free of contracting this disease.
Robert Katzman had passed away after a long illness 2008. He was the man who had redefined Alzheimer as a problem of public health and is the most progressive way of dementia in old age. He was born in 1925 in Denver, and was founder and director of the Investigation of Alzheimer Centre.
His interest for this painful and degrading disease was initiated when he saw his mother-in-law, Elsie Bernstein, who had suffered it since the age of 64 and she died in 1977. He took up then an unwavering determination to study this disease. He almost started a social war when many medical experts and people in general continued defining Alzheimer as pre-senile illness and full stop.
Leading such a difficult and insufficiently supported campaign, he launched to the world the necessity of understanding the phenomenon of this disease in another way, which is to foster a social state of awareness in that senility is not the consequence of getting old, but that it's a disease, which needs to be studied and considered as any other disease, which means improvement, prevention, delay or even solutions might be found one day to combat it.
By then there's another Bob working also in this and in the same hospital, Dr. Robert Terry, a great neuro-pathologist dedicated to the study of Alzheimer, having in 1964 discovered the nature of the plagues and clews of neuro-fibrillates. The two Bob's, Katzman and Terry, united their study and investigation in the project.
Although retired as professor in 1995, Katzman continued his interests and followed closely any development anywhere in the world. It's recognition came in 1998.
Remembering a friend of mine who died of Alzheimer before he completed 60 years of age.
Current Mood: 
Hopeful
Hopeful My Accidental Existence - Just Thinking Out Loud
Every
now and then, there are 2 things friends would, out of a blue as part
of the conversation, tell me that I ought to write a book or biography,
and the other thing is that I should run a fashion business. This has
been going on for years, always these 2 directions; nobody ever
suggested I should have a restaurant, or be a secretary, or learn any
trade, run any kind of business or acquire a skill that could turn into a
career. Always a book or a boutique. Oh yes one or two thought I should run a Charm School or be a beauty consultant.
I think I have even written a Blog about this quite some time ago. It had come up again recently. As much as I enjoy writing, I don't think I will ever write a book, especially one of fiction. I am advocate of truth, however boring, unexciting or painful. As to writing my own biography I am more than certain I will never do. I don't want to dwell on the past asI am still too busy living the present and wondering about the future. If, only if ever, I should write it all down, then this imaginary and never to be written biography would be called 'My accidental existence'. The fashion world I had been in it's many aspects, part of the past, and had learned from it that I didn't intend to get myself involved as a long term career or business, in the sense of trying to make a living or, with much luck, earn plenty of money. Again, hypothetically speaking, if I do, I will not have a boutique full of the ultra modern, up to the last second fashion for the young and the skinny, the kind of clothing that carries an invisible sell-by date label of 3 to 6 months. There are far too many of those already, saturated with wear-and-throw-away fashions. I said to my friends that I would more likely run a boutique for larger sizes, and for mature ladies of all ages. Big ladies don't mean they are fat, just big but well proportioned. In that sense, they form the majority of the feminine side of the society. Up to now, the section for those ladies are usually found, with a lot of search, only in a comparatively very small number of odd shops here and there, in a tiny section way at the back of the shops. What is available for these larger or older ladies can hardly be called fashion, more utility wear of practicality, just so that they don't have to go naked. Not mine. My fashion shop or boutique, if I had one, would have large stock of fashionable wear, elegant, cool, hip, chic, sexy ... and all other adjectives one applies to the catwalk fashion for the young and willowy. (That would mean I have to get my clothing else where though, as I happen to be very slim.) It's just that I see no reason at all why a size XL lady of 50, 60 or 70 should always look drab and what's politely called 'homely'. My brand name would be 'BNB' - Big & Beautiful. What do you think? I would have designs for them to make them feel and look elegant, fashionable, attractive and definitely catch some wolf-whistles. |
Current Mood: 
Artistic
Artistic
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